Fytton Rowland wrote:
> Copyright is, I believe, significantly different in the UK and the USA. In
> the UK, as Iain says, copyright exists as soon as a text is written by its
> author, whether it is published or not. In the USA, copyright has to be
> registered.
This has not been true for many years now. See p.3 col. 2 of
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf
> In Europe there are moral rights (such as the right to be
> identified as the author of your work) which remain with the author
> even if
> the copyright is transferred to another.
And a very sensible system this is, which the US should adopt. Giving up
ownership need not entail giving up authorship.
Regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
e-mail: christo_at_yorku.ca
phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164
fax: 416-736-5814
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
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