- From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:42:03 -0300 (BRST)
- To: Pascal Desroche <pascal@ker.org>
- Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>, <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>, <C-FIT_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>, <fairuse-discuss@mrbrklyn.com>, <nylug-talk@nylug.org>, <patents@liberte.aful.org>, <DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org>, <love@cptech.org>
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Pascal Desroche wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:14:35AM -0300, Rik van Riel écrit: > > > > > But please take note of the danger of the Hague treaty, which > > > threatens to globalize *all* the laws of the various signatory > > > countries that can restrict what you can publish. If patents are > > > included in the Hague treaty--and that is the current proposal--and if > > > Brazil signs it, Brazilians that publish software on the net could be > > > in danger from US patent law. > > > > ... unless I'm not publishing to the US ;) > > no. if Brazil signs it and you publish in Brazil, or in any other > country wo signed the Hague treaty, then you may confront the legal > machine of a foreign country member of the treaty. So if I hit your car in France, you may sue me in Norway, where neither of us has ever been and which doesn't have anything to do with the incident ? regards, Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ (volunteers needed) http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
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