2008/9/16 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com:
Quickly on a tangent... I tried to find a basis for EU works being in the PD, however i was more interested in the legislative and supporting documents:
It is dangerous to misunderstand non-technical copyright notices. The page cited above quotes a notice on the "Journal": "access to the site is completely free and not subject to any conditions." This has nothing to do with re-use possibilities we need. The statement "However, legislative material is treated as being in the public domain for end-users" isn't useful. Public domain for the end users means in my interpretation that commercial re-use is forbidden and thus the notice is absolutely worthless for WS.
Klaus Graf http://archiv.twoday.net