re:Re: copyrighted standards documents

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, ballendo@y... wrote:

> Tony,
>
> Excellent post!
>
> One addt'l point regarding your point below:
>
> Recent Case law has resulted in the removal of the need for
> an "explicit copyright statement". Copyright, in MOST, or ALL cases
> IS ASSUMED, regardless of whether the "public" has been "notified"

by

> a copyright symbol or statement.
>
>
> >Even if a document does not have an explicit copyright statement
> >attached to it, the document may still be regarded by the law as

the

> >intellectual property of the author, and it therefore cannot be
> >reproduced etc. without the permission of the author.
>
> Hope this helps.

Ballendo -

Thanks - a useful clarification - although including the explicit
notification helps to avoid having to pay lawyers to create/cite the
case law! Its a bit like signing contracts - if you sign a contract,
knowing that some of its clauses are contrary to current law, you can
still have problems (== expensive lawyers to argue the case) when you
subsequently claim that those clauses are null & void, as the
argument comes back that you still knowingly signed the contract &
therefore can be asumed to have agreed to all of its provisions. You
probably still win, but it costs you more to do so.

Regards,
Tony