[d@DCC] Berne

[Russell McOrmond]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Jon-o Addleman wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:37:38AM -0500, Wallace J.McLean spake thusly:
> > Not gonna happen: Berne.
> 
> Ok... I've heard far too many good ideas dismissed in this way. What
> would actually be involved in making changes to Berne?

  If you take a look at http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/treaties.htm you 
will see a series of treaties, including the many-times-amended Berne 
convention:

http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs/en/wo/wo001en.htm

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Berne Convention
for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works*

Paris Act
of July 24, 1971, as amended on September 28, 1979

of September 9, 1886,
completed at PARIS on May 4, 1896,
revised at BERLIN on November 13, 1908,
completed at BERNE on March 20, 1914,
revised at ROME on June 2, 1928,
at BRUSSELS on June 26, 1948,
at STOCKHOLM on July 14, 1967,
and at PARIS on July 24, 1971,
and amended on September 28, 1979

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  Each of the other treaties are also amendments on the rights set out in
Berne, including the recent copyright and phonograms treaties that we
often talk about.

  The suggestion that these things cannot be changed because of Berne is
to suggest that the issue that brought many of us here (anti-DMCA work)
can never happen because of Berne.  The fact is that copyright law both
domestically and internationally is a moving target, and saying "not gonna
happen" reads to me only as a way to discourage public participation in
policy reform.

-- 
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
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