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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.linfield.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!napier From: napier@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Duncan Napier) 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 Date: 30 Mar 1996 19:19:55 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4jk1gr$ejq@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4j7dg2$t3t@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> <3158D764.4A7C@vfr.interceptor.com> <4jj6ig$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cypress.chem.ubc.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14015 comp.os.linux.development.system:20508 comp.os.linux.x:28325 comp.os.linux.hardware:35182 comp.os.linux.setup:48615 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:411 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2942 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2709 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16492 In article <4jj6ig$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) writes: >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. >: [snip] >: >: 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. Which raises the question: What is the penalty for an EU citizen who reverse engineers a Canadian product (Matrox is based in Dorval, Quebec) and in doing so, violates US law? :-) Duncan Napier.