Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Delirium delirium@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: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Jastrow/PD-art
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