william bright wrote:

> Peter Daniels wrote:

> >Dutch law has little to say about US journals (except as under the
> >Universal Copyright Convention).

The UCC is pretty much a dead letter, since all signatories are
now also members of the Berne Convention. Copyright laws are actually
remarkably uniform around the world, with differences like the
status of "the moral right to be known as the author", which e.g.
applies to all works in France, but only to visual works in the U.S.

> as far as i can find, the urbana collection doesn't *have* a copyright
> notice!

Copyright notices are no longer required; since 1976 in the U.S.,
since much earlier in other countries. A work once "fixed in a tangible
medium", such as paper, stone, or hard disk, is automatically
copyrighted. Using the copyright notice is still legally useful,
for it prevents the defense of "I didn't know it was copyrighted."

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