On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:14:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:00:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, the US are mostly the most restrictive (unreasonable) juridiction > > on this kind of issues, so ... > > That's not my experience. The U.S. is very aggressive about extending > the duration of copyrights, and deserves to be criticized for that, but > it is far from the worst offender with respect to the *breadth* of > copyright. In the U.S., we have consumer protections such as the "right > of first sale" and "fair use" written into our laws and upheld in the > courts. There are European agreements in effect that include those things, too. There is a "right of first sale in the EU", which means that it's only valid if you bought your copyrighted product in the EU yourself; and the fair use clauses are in effect in every jurisdiction I know of (I think they're part of the Berne convention, but could be mistaken). -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune
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