Jan Hauke Rahm writes:
> Practically, I do see problems in the US, too: do you think a US court
> would grant you copyright if the only statement in a file were "(C)
> 2009, cate"?
The copyright office has a webpage that explains some of these
issues at http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl101.html:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:22:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jan Hauke Rahm writes:
> > Practically, I do see problems in the US, too: do you think a US court
> > would grant you copyright if the only statement in a file were "(C)
> > 2009, cate"?
>
> Explicit copyright notice is not required
Jan Hauke Rahm writes:
> Speaking for germany (as I already did in this thread), you have to
> disclose your identity in court to make use of your civil rights. IOW
> you cannot lay claim to your copyright if you are not identified as
> the copyright holder. A pseudonym is then only helping (AFAI
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
>
> > but I don't think is is usable in open source. Editors/publishers are
> > required to know the real name,
>
> Why are editors/publishers required to know the real name?
>
> Maybe this is a juri
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
> but I don't think is is usable in open source. Editors/publishers are
> required to know the real name,
Why are editors/publishers required to know the real name?
Maybe this is a jurisdiction-dependent issue? I don't know of any such
constraint in the US, but
Lars Wirzenius wrote:
la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti:
Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname?
Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and
tends to be explicitly recognized by copyright laws.
but I don't think is i
David Paleino writes:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:04:32 +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote:
>> Also, going back to the note about reputation; There's no reason
>> reputation can't be associated with a pseudonym or with a GPG key
>> attached to a pseudonym.
>
> How do you sign such a key? You'd break the w
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:21:04AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti:
> > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname?
>
> Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and
> tends to be explicitly reco
On Sat Jun 20 10:19, David Paleino wrote:
> > Also, going back to the note about reputation; There's no reason
> > reputation can't be associated with a pseudonym or with a GPG key
> > attached to a pseudonym.
>
> How do you sign such a key? You'd break the web of trust, if you don't check
> at
>
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:04:32 +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> On Sat Jun 20 09:28, David Paleino wrote:
> > Now that I read Ben's mail again, I see that his concern is also about the
> > Maintainer field. I suppose that should be a real name too then? Or is it ok
> > having a pseudonym because it's
On Sat Jun 20 09:28, David Paleino wrote:
> Now that I read Ben's mail again, I see that his concern is also about the
> Maintainer field. I suppose that should be a real name too then? Or is it ok
> having a pseudonym because it's the sponsor taking responsibility for
> the upload? (given that usi
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:21:04 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti:
> > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname?
>
> Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and
> tends to be explicitly recognize
la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti:
> Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname?
Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and
tends to be explicitly recognized by copyright laws.
The history of literature is full of people wri
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:25:20 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> [moving to debian-devel as this is a topic broader than debian-mentors]
>
> Master Kernel writes:
>
> > Ben Finney writes:
> >
> > > [To be likely to have your package sponsored,] You will need to
> > > identify yourself; “Master Kernel”
[moving to debian-devel as this is a topic broader than debian-mentors]
Master Kernel writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> > [To be likely to have your package sponsored,] You will need to
> > identify yourself; “Master Kernel” is hardly likely to be your real
> > name.
>
> Is there *any way* tha
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