Who owns what we post?

  • Dave.@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    The World Copyright Office then?

    Oh wait, three seconds of googling suggests my posts are most likely covered when I post via my home instance in Australia.

    “You don’t need to register for copyright in Australia. The moment an idea or creative concept is documented on paper or electronically it is automatically protected by copyright in Australia. Copyright protection is free and automatic under the Copyright Act 1968.”

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      That’s what I said.

      While copyright applies automatically

      You can’t enforce it without it being registered. Courts will reject any claim that is filled with unregistered copyright.

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        11 months ago

        The concept of needing to register copyright does not exist in most countries. In many countries you just have it and you can enforce it.

        Fediverse servers do exist outside of the USA so this is relevant for people who run those servers.

      • lily33@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        That’s only US courts. Other countries don’t even have a procedure for registering copyrights.