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[Bernt Hansson]

2011-06-17 18:28, Chad Perrin skrev:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:22:31AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>> 2011-06-17 06:53, Adam Vande More skrev:
>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Copyright you get without registration and without payment, and one
>>>> can't give it up.
>>>
>>> Again, registration is pretty important if you want to an expanded
>>> ability to legally enforce it.
>>
>> Where i live no need to register, you get copyright if the stuff
>> fulfills certain criteria, originality is one.
>
> Registration aids enforcement.

Perhaps. But where i live (sweden) you can't register copyright.
It is granted you if certain criteria is fulfilled.

>>> And you can assign your copyright away.
>>
>> Only the monetary. The creator can sell the right to make copys of the
>> work but the creator still retains the copyright.
>
> That depends on jurisdiction.  In the US, you can negate copyright
> entirely by assigning something you have created to the public domain.

In Sweden you can not. On the other hand you can choose not to sue.

> The fact this is not applicable everywhere is the reason for things like
> the CC0 waiver, however.

What is CC0?

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