Re: : Enforcement of US Work in Foreign

From: Mike Holderness <mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:05:00 -0500


In-Reply-To: <list-9445976[_at_]cni.org>
<cafonelaw[_at_]hotmail.com> wrote:

> What does not seem right to me is that the US national
> could not enforce the copyright in his home country
> (because it is not registered), but he could enforce
> it in France. It's as though Berne gives US
> copyright owners enhanced rights in other countries.

Whereas if you take the world (Berne) as the standard and recognise that the US is an exception, the "fairness" issue looks entirely different...

Mike Received on Fri Feb 25 2005 - 23:05:00 GMT

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