[Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

Peter Gervai grinapo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 14:16:57 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 15:01, Jimmy Xu<xu.jimmy.wrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> So that is, due to P.R. of China Copyright Law, text that published in
> newspapers, periodicals, radio and TV stations and other media
> reported the news of the simple fact are not copyrighted. But I cannot
> find these exception in US Copyright Law. Maybe it's only because my

If it is legal to use them by PRC laws (and the material was authored
in PRC) then it is legal to use anywhere in the world. At least I'd
believe so, because this is the same case as US governmental
materials, soviet era stuff and like, but IANAL.

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    grin



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