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>>>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, kuzetsa wrote: |
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> Summary / emphasis: the copyright protection for a |
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> legal entity or pseudonymous author (copyright holder) |
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> may also have validity outside the copyright holder or |
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> author's jurisdiction under the berne convention. |
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A work is protected by copyright even if it doesn't carry any copyright |
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notice at all. Our policy requires a notice mainly to protect us against |
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a possible "innocent infringement" defense under U.S. law: |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice#Reasons_to_include_an_optional_copyright_notice |
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IANAL, but as I understand it, the requirements for the name that |
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appears in a copyright notice are rather lax, and your quote from the |
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Berne convention seems to confirm that. Also there is nothing in the |
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GLEP's wording that would forbid the use of a pseudonym in the copyright |
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notice, as long as it will qualify as an identifier of the copyright |
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holder. (The Signed-off-by line is a different issue, though.) |
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Ulrich |
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