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Re:Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue by slashdotaccount on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:05AM (#7545370)
Most of the world implemented the Berne Convention, which creates a thing called "copyright". In the world of copyright, absence of license means all rights reserved, except for "fair use", "fair dealing" and similar exceptions. In the world outside copyright law everything is in the public domain, no licenses necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

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Re:Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue by sp332 on Monday April 07, 2014 @10:29AM (#7546651)
The Berne Convention didn't invent copyright.
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Re:Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue by schme on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:52AM (#7547205)
I don't think that was ever implied.
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Re:Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue by sp332 on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:59AM (#7547256)
Well, you can have copyright without declaring that everything is copyrighted when it is created. A lot of countries had systems like that until they ratified the Berne Convention.
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Re:Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @09:49AM (#7591766)
No, it wasn't implied, it was stated outright that the Berne Convention "creates a thing called copyright" (when, in fact, the Berne Convention harmonizes certain provisions of copyright law among those countries who adhere to it.)
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