Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source
From: Arnoud Engelfriet <galactus@stack.nl>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 17:05:15 +0200
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>  ... regarding EU directives: are individual governments _allowed_ to
>  go beyond the bounds of the EU directives (in the implementation into
>  law)?

They must change their law to conform to the directive. But
there's no instance that can intervene if they're wrong.

Arnoud

-- 
Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch patent attorney - Speaking only for myself
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