24 Feb
2009
24 Feb
'09
9:48 a.m.
But Chuck,
Not being a signatory of the Convention doesn't make Iran bad, or the website bad. I
think that an approach to the webmaster to request that adequate attribution and a
statement external to the document be inserted that it belongs to Evan just might protect
him - though once released into the wild, any document can no longer be protected (see a
comment I made yesterday).
I have found that the best way is to assume first the good will of the other. It ain't
always gonna work; I've proved that with a couple of adventures. But as I wrote
yesterday, I at least got half a loaf.
Vern Wright
--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
Subject: Re: AAARRGGGHHHH ... people still stealing my work
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 9:38 PM
On 23 Feb 2009 at 6:11, jd wrote:
Under the Berne Convention, a work does not need to be
explicitly
copyrighted to enjoy the protection of copyright.
If
Iran subscribes
to the Berne Convention, then there may be some
recourse for you. But
certain states have been known to protect
copyright
violators and
obstruct or simply ignore the Berne Convention
and
authors' assertion
of rights. In such a case, a few authors have
been
successful in
seizing violators' foreign assets.
Iran is not a member of the Berne Convention or WTO or
anything else
that might give an foreigner standing in Iran:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_copyright_issues
Sorry about that,
Chuck