WIPO Copyright Treaty - Worldwide DMCA (was: European DMCA)

[João Miguel Neves]

On 07 Aug 2001 23:29:26 +0200, schilling at fokus.gmd.de wrote:
> Don't mix the "European Copyright" (at least to my understaning) with the bad
> english word "Copyright".
> 
> From what I know, European Copyright is very similar to the German Copyright
> which rather should be called "Authorship right" because the German name is:
> "Urheberrecht". It is forbidden by law to give away this property.
> 
> What you may give away is the Copy-right in the real meaning of the words.
> 
> This is completely different from the US laws on Copyright. For the same reason
> it is no possible to have public domain software in Europe....
> 
This is not correct. At least in Portugal the concept of copyright
(direitos de autor) includes the concepts of transfer and public domain.
AFAIK there's no such concept of non-tranferable authorship here.

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						Joao Miguel Neves