Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:50:03 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Dell vs. GPL |
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Ricardo Galli wrote: > Indeed. Those people don't realise that their "copyright" law is different to > the almost the rest of the world.
> In most of Europe there in no "The Copyright", but "authors' or > moral rights" ("derechos de autor", "droit d'auteur") and > "exploitation rights" (or economic rights).
> Author/moral rights cannot be jeopardized.
Except when the work is a computer program. Check the law sometime!
I recall there is a special exception for computer programs in either UK or EU law - I forget which, perhaps both. This exception means that if I compose some music for a publisher, I cannot give up moral rights to the work - which means I always have a right to be credited as author or something like that, and nobody can take that away. However, if I compose a computer program for a publisher, my moral right to be credited _is_ taken away.
This _only_ applies to computer programmers. Bah!
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