Re: RFS: kernelcheck
Jan Hauke Rahm <info@jhr-online.de> writes:
> Speaking for germany (as I already did in this thread), you have to
> disclose your identity in court to make use of your civil rights. IOW
> you cannot lay claim to your copyright if you are not identified as
> the copyright holder. A pseudonym is then only helping (AFAIK again)
> if this pseudonym is accepted by government which means official
> registering.
>
> Practically, I do see problems in the US, too: do you think a US court
> would grant you copyright if the only statement in a file were "(C)
> 2009, cate"?
Explicit copyright notice is not required in any country that's a
signatory to Berne. The only difference the copyright notice makes in
the US is in what statutory damages you can claim.
So yes, this wouldn't pose any challenge to copyright in the US. You
would, of course, have to prove that you're the copyright holder, but
you'd have to do that no matter what the copyright statement said.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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