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Well I am not quoteing UK copyright law but USA copyright law and everything you said above unfortunately is incorrect. Sorry, I have to tell it like I know. Having the experience of going through a very tough copyright lawsuit that involved 13 companies in 4 countries I'm pretty familiar with what I'm talking about. The Berne Convention ties the various laws within each to a stanadard and it is THAT unified standard I speak of as well as US copyright law. |
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I'm afraid that US Code Title 17, 106 disagrees with you on derivative works:
Quote:Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and (6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
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Only the owner of copyright may waive these rights, including putting a work in the public domain.
Granted, I'm not a lawyer, but neither are you, so unless you can explain how the plain text of the copyright law of the US does not contradict what you say, I must assume you are mistaken. |
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