Re: gEDA-user: copyright on schematics, PCBs etc.

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:51:04PM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Friday 05 November 2004 12:15 pm, Daniel J Wisehart wrote:
> > It depends on what country you live in, but in the US (from
> > http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wci)

I've already read a simlilar blubber in Czech law.
However it's not still clear to me. Is a PCB a litography? I have asked some
lawyer and he wrote Czech copyright doesn't cover PCB's.

What do you think about GNU FDL?

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> 
> In a nut-shell the Brene Convention is the international version of Copyright.
> 
> BERNE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF
> LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS (Paris Text 1971)
> 
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html
> 
> "This Convention, which was originally adopted in 1886, is the world's oldest 
> and most widely adopted international copyright treaty. Berne requires a 
> member nation to provide the same copyright protection to authors who are 
> nationals of other Berne member nations that it provides to its own 
> nationals....
> 
> On October 31, 1988, President Reagan signed a bill amending the Copyright Act 
> to make it compatible with Berne, and the U.S. took the formal steps 
> necessary to become a member of Berne. The effective date of both the Act and 
> the United States' membership in the Berne Convention is March 1, 1989."
> 
> http://www.gesmer.com/publications/softcopy/7.php
> 
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