On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:06:26AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: D. Joe via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
An excellent and informative post.
Thanks!
| Amongst those of us of a certain age in the US, who don't have legal | training, I suspect the lore persists that copyright restrictions apply | only if the copyright for the work has been registered--this used to be | true in living memory.
Are you in the US?
Most of the time, yes.
My understanding of US law (shaky!!) is that damages are limited if you didn't register the copyright.
That's what I understand, yes, that unregistered, birthright copyright is mostly good for injunctive relief ("stop using that!"). Since use is freedom 0 that seems enough of a problem for free software, though.
moral rights
Looks like folks have gotten a good bead on this elsethread, but yeah, good point.