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Surprised Gandhi is on that list, was he generally someone known to assert his intellectual property rights?
by arealaccount 2y ago
Surprised Gandhi is on that list, was he generally someone known to assert his intellectual property rights?
- macintux 2y agoCopyright, at least in the U.S., is automatic. He would have to actively assert that he was releasing it into the public domain (and IIRC, although my last discussion on the topic was ~20 years ago, such a release had not yet been tested in court).
- callingbull 2y ago> Copyright, at least in the U.S., is automatic. It is now, but back then a work was public domain if released without a valid copyright notice. Charade, a 1963 film, entered the public domain immediately on release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charade_(1963_film)#Public-domain_status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charade_(1963_film)#Public-dom...
- ndriscoll 2y agoIt wasn't automatic in the past, which notably led to Night of the Living Dead accidentally becoming public domain on release.
- crossroadsguy 2y agoHaving known of the man I would say copyright would have been, if at all, at somewhere in the bottom of bottom list of battles he was (and had to be) fighting.