<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Thorsten Glaser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de" target="_blank">tg@mirbsd.de</a>></span> scripsit:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Under the Berne Convention, a work from country A is, in country B,<br>
subject to the same protection as a work from country B. That means<br>
for a work originating in the USA, in Germany, only(!) German copy‐<br>
right law applies. In France, only French law, etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Up to a point, Minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Also under the Berne convention, country B may (but is not required to)</div><div>treat a work that is out of copyright in its originating country as out of copyright</div><div>in country B as well. The U.S. does not exercise this option, and the</div><div>EU countries are effectively forbidden to do so by EU case law.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a></div><div>But the next day there came no dawn, and the Grey Company passed on</div><div>into the darkness of the Storm of Mordor and were lost to mortal sight;</div><div>but the Dead followed them. --"The Passing of the Grey Company"</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>