BL> USA only applies in the USA. Australia does
BL> not even have the concept of felony in law.

Thats crap too.

PE> Well most people are signed up to the Berne convention, and if
PE> you FREQ BERNE10.ZIP you will get that. I haven't read it myself.

BL> I have read a summary.

Didnt appear to have helped much.

BL> Its main thrust is that copyright on intellectual property
BL> merely has to be asserted. This makes it pretty-well automatic.

That pair of sentences dont even make any sense together like that.

BL> It says nothing about penalties or felonies.

But it does explicitly lay down some stuff which
is in contrast to what the previous approach was.

BL> How could it, when every country has different criminal and civil statutes?

There is the tiny detail of the consequence of signing it Bob.

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