On 31 Dec 2002 13:56:03 -0800, Brion Vibber
<brion=e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org> wrote:
I can't speak for New Zealand, but I'd be very surprised if knowledge of
historical facts were subject to copyright. Otherwise, you wouldn't be
allowed to mention anything that you heard about on the radio or TV news
or read about in a newspaper without getting written permission and
paying a relicensing fee... ;)
It certainly shouldn't be a problem in New Zealand. A year or two ago we
were heading towards such a relaxed copyright law (academic institutions
were to be allowed to copy quite freely) that International textbook
publishers were threatening to make their books unavailable in New Zealand.
I've never actually heard whether that law change was defeated.
Inceidentally (and heading OT), many books published in Britain in the
middle of last century carried the rider "for Copyright reasons this
edition may not be sold in the US and Canada". Does anyone know thether
this was because there were separate territorial publishing deals, or
because of lower legal protection in US/Canada?
--
Richard Grevers