[LAD] students and copyright

[Ralf Mardorf]

Arnout Engelen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:25:19AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
>   
>> Just out of curiosity, how many participants in this discussion are 
>> copyright holders ? How many of you have published works under copyright ?
>>     
>
> At least in the Netherlands (and i believe this goes for most if not all of 
> Europe), it's pretty hard not to be a copyright holder: you're automatically a
> copyright holder when you create a nontrivial work. Registering your copyright
> is optional (but can make things somewhat easier in case of a dispute).
>
> So yeah, I'm a copyright holder, mostly some software here and there and a
> couple of publications in online and dead-tree magazines.

It's the same in Germany, so it seems to obtain for the EU. In Germany 
we make jokes, if people have fat copyright written over their graphical 
artworks. This only is done by non-professionals who try to look like 
professionals.