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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!leasion!leasion!not-for-mail From: mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 30 Mar 1996 11:40:00 GMT Organization: Electronic Services Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4jj6ig$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> <4j7dg2$t3t@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> <3158D764.4A7C@vfr.interceptor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13754 comp.os.linux.development.system:20147 comp.os.linux.x:27799 comp.os.linux.hardware:34578 comp.os.linux.setup:47559 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:324 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2823 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2603 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16143 Thumper! (thumper@vfr.interceptor.com) wrote: : Waldi Ravens wrote: : > > 1) It's illegal. : > : > Boy, have I got news for you. Unlike you believe, USA laws do not aplly : > to the whole universe. They only apply to the USA. But most likely you : > wouldn't even know that other countries exist. : : Most nations of the world (including all European countries, Japan, Australia : and New Zealand) are in fact signatories of the Bern Act. The USA was an : extreme latecomer in signing the Bern Act, having only signed it in late 1988 : (taking effect March 1st, 1989). : : The Bern act effectively says that everything is copyrighted unless expressly : NOT intended for copyright. (Prior laws in the US, for example, required that : copyrights be applied for, and then renewed at intervals). Actually so does the UK 1956 Copyright act. But the definition of what constitues an "original" work differs significently from the US one.