Re: [Patents] Publishing patents

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 00:19, Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> You can perfectly infringe a copyright unknowlingly. 

Copyright infringement depends on an active action:

   distributing a copy

You can't infringe copyright unintentionally unless you count ignorance
of security measures for protecting your own computer.

The law doesn't (yet) force people into having secure computers at home,
where their private music collection might be copied by someone
accessing his computer (lawfully or not).

> I don't know the exact rules for american law but they should be quite
> the same since everything is regulated by international treaties.

... but of course, you might have different legislation in different
countries.

Rui

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