Copyright treaty

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Mar 2005, at 23:04, Paul Hilfinger, "Re: Question about  
"Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation", wrote:

> Actually, I believe that the Berne convention gives no standing
> whatever to written copyright notices of this sort.

There is an international copyright treaty "WIPO Copyright Treaty  
(adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996)",
  http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/index.html
  http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html
It invokes the Berne convention. It also makes an interesting reading  
compared to US copyright law (Circular 92):
  http://www.copyright.gov/
(For example, it says very clearly that national law must not impose  
legislative measures that conflicts with normal exploitation of the  
work; compare with §1201 of US copyright law. Further, computer  
programs are no different, from the point of view of copyright, than  
literary works.)

  Hans Aberg