[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: ISO intellectual property (was Standards)
Well, maybe. Apparently the W3C has different rules for its own documents and schemas. Making references is a good thing. The question is one of value. What does the reference imply other than to assert that the work is derivative. Beyond rights granted by putting the material into a fixed form, a copyright claimnant reserves rights. That would mean they are within their rights to make derivative works if granted such rights by the original holder of the copyright, yes? Again, the SGML references have a value. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Tom Bradford [mailto:bradford@d...] According to international copyright law, any document that is produced is automatically protected by copyright, registered or not. But from what I understand, it doesn't disallow derived works, or external referencing from other documents. If it did, the entire WWW would be a massive copyright violation. And a trademark only protectes the use of a name, not a process or specification. So things like Common-XML and Minimal-XML are perfectly within their right to derive from XML, just as the W3C was perfectly within its rights to dervice from SGML and even go so far as to make references to ISO documents.
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