Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Edward Middleton writes:
>  >     *Article 18.* (1) The author shall have the rights to offer to and
>  >     to make available to the public his work which has not yet been made
>  >     public (including a work which has been made public without his
>  >     consent; the same shall apply in this Article).[1]
>  > 
>  > This second part, about including works that have been made public 
>  > without consent, would suggest that you have to verify that a work was 
>  > made public legally the first time before you could republish it.
>
> This is a misinterpretation, as the title of that subsection ("Moral
> Rights of Authors") clearly indicates.  This is about the right of the
> author to see her work made public, not about the (lack of) rights of
> the public.

Yes that was a brain fart ;)

Edward