Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ...
by stephenatwork on Friday October 07, 2011 @10:43AM
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No, that's not how it works. At least in the US, an author has an implicit copyright over his or her work even if he or she does not post a copyright notice. The author would have to explicitly forfeit his or her rights to the work in order for it to be in the public domain.
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Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ...
by pbhjpbhj on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:40PM
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This was actually the case in most of the world when the USA was still using a register. It's relatively recently that the USA has signed up to what the rest of the world has been doing for a while ... just for a change.
Of course there are some places that haven't signed the Berne Convention and don't have a copyright treaty through TRIPS or something similar.