On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Delirium
<delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
The short answer is that it depends on the
country. Bridgeman-like rules
hold in the United States, Germany, Poland, Japan, and Switzerland,
among other countries, but do not hold in all countries.
On this subject, can please someone site good law from outside of the
US (case law, as applicable, based on the jourisdiction) that clearly
contradicts the ruling in Bridgeman v. Corel?
According to this summary (in French, sorry), cases in France have gone
both ways:
There also seems to be near-unanimous agreement among experts that a
case in the UK would be decided the opposite of Bridgeman v. Corel, but
it doesn't seem to have actually come up. Maybe everone's so sure of it
that nobody bothers to try to challenge it.
-Mark