Does Ulex need copyright rules?

[proftomwbell]

Ulex 1.1 has no default copyright rules. Should it? If so, which ones? If not . . . what would happen to litigants bringing claims under Ulex?

[danielkrainas]

I would suggest CC0 if you really don't care about the copyright and don't want to think about it again, otherwise something more conservative would be CC-BY-SA 2.0

[proftomwbell]

Thanks but that answers a different question: Under what copyright should Ulex be published? The answer to that has been set as you suggest, CC0.

The question here is: Should Ulex include among its rule sets, such as those for contracts, for torts, etc., a set of rules restricting non-original expressions.

[danielkrainas]

@proftomwbell my mistake

[Arbitrage0]

As a starting point, WIPO Principles of Copyright? (with multi-jurisdictional cases/materials)
http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/844/wipo_pub_844.pdf

[Arbitrage0]

The non-profit EIFL has a model copyright law that they've been developing for transition countries across the globe which is more specific: http://libguides.wits.ac.za/ld.php?content_id=6300645

[proftomwbell]

@Arbitrage0 : the EIFL document, though a work in progress, looks very good. Not that I agree with all the specific substantive laws; see Intellectual Privilege for that. Point is: This looks like a reasonably objective private source of simple and accessible copyright rules.

Thank you!

[Arbitrage0]

@proftomwbell no worries! I will take a look at Intellectual Privilege, but at the very outset I am presuming that we aren't bound by one particular source for the project (or even international law / conventions re: TRIPS or Berne for that matter).

Thus, we could make our own modifications to the EIFL's substantive laws after discussions. This was just to get a framework out there.

[Arbitrage0]

On the subject of intellectual property, would it be worth searching for Model Patent Law as well?

For example, there is the WIPO Model Law for Developing Countries on Inventions (with commentary, but all the way back from 1980, so it's terribly outdated; and definitely not a "private source" of rules).