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From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
In-Reply-To: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk's message of 3 Aug 92 10:32:10 GMT
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 20:54:29 GMT
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From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-Pete French.)
>Out of inteerst - hwt are the implications of this case for people outside the
>US who have already got NET2 ? Can we quite happily hang on to it until At&T
>start sueing in Europe, and if not then why not ?
Being as there are copyright claims I would assume that AT&T will
demand international protection under the Berne Convention (ca. 1978).
Since the AT&T copyright came later on (after 1980), I would imagine
it all falls under this pact.
Most nations you are probably thinking of are signatories to the Berne
Convention. I don't have the list but I seem to remember that it's
like 80 or so countries.
So there's no short cut out the door.
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-Barry Shein
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