Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 13:48:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Sun, 22 May 2005, Brian O'Mahoney wrote:
> 
> Copyright law is complicated, since it differs in the UK, EU and non EU
> contries, such as Switzerland; so in the UK copyright automatically
> persists in anything I write, in the US it dosn't

You don't need a copyright notice even in the US any more, afaik. The US 
signed the Berne convention late, but did sign it.

You own copyright on anything you write, as logn as it's copyrightable in 
the first place, of course. Not everything is.

[ Although if you're going to sue somebody for wilful infringement, I
  suspect that in practice you'd have better made your copyright known
  some way. ]

And no, I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV. And I don't see why 
people discuss technicalities.

		Linus
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