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Excellent work .. and of course, a salient reminder of why we all, individually, should copyright our own works, even if it is something done for free and/or fo
by fit2rule 11y ago
Excellent work .. and of course, a salient reminder of why we all, individually, should copyright our own works, even if it is something done for free and/or for volunteer basis with no commercial interest. A right not exercised is one lost.
I think its preposterous that someone is able to trademark a word list. I bet its not even complete.
- zxc1234 11y agoSick system. In other developed countries you have copyright if you do it. You don´t need to register that right anywhere. Of course more difficult to prove but thats another story...
- CrystalGamma 11y agoWhen I found out you had to register your stuff for copyright in certain countries, I was actually surprised ... I just thought having copyright for your work by default was normal.
- thristian 11y agoI believe it's normal in all countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention, which is... apparently ~160 of the ~190 UN member states.
- ethanbond 11y agoIn the US you don't have to register anything either.
- icebraining 11y agoAll works that can be copyrighted are automatically copyrighted from the moment of creation, unless you live in one of the dozen countries which haven't ratified neither the Berne Convention nor TRIPS. The US signed Berne in '89, by the way.
- dublinben 11y agoThis is actually a better argument for copyleft licensing for any community effort like this. It would not have been possible for any company to lock down the efforts of this community if all contributions to the wordlist at question had been under a license like Creative Commons or the GPL.
- nawitus 11y agoWhat's your source for being able to trademark a word list?