copyright on description

[Jacques Melot]

  Le 1/06/05, ? 20:02 +1000, nous recevions de Vr.R.E.M.J..-B.
BEJSAK-COLLOREDO-MANSFELD :

>Dear colleagues
>
>I like to know if copyright apply also on description on genera or species.


    Le ? copyright ? est remplac? par la convention de Berne qui
prot?ge la production litt?raire (y compris scientifique) et
artistique. ? cette convention adh?rent 182 pays, y compris les
?tats-Unis d'Am?rique qui a sign? le trait? sur le droit d'auteur (12
avril 1997) et l'a ratifi? (14 septembre 1999, avec entr?e en vigueur
6 mars 2002).

http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/fr/copyright.html
http://www.wipo.int/copyright/fr/
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/fr/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html

Article 2 (1) : (1) Les termes ??uvres litt?raires et artistiques?
comprennent toutes les productions du domaine litt?raire,
SCIENTIFIQUE et artistique, quel qu?en soit le mode ou la forme
d?expression [...]

    Jacques Melot


>I know that maybe I can republish description from journal older
>than 50 years (like Scleropatrum Reitter 1890) but Can I "republish"
>on my website for example description of genus Bremerus published in
>2004 in Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl. Zool?
>
>Keep care and be of good cheer
>
>Regards
>
>(name) Vratislav Richard Eugene Maria John Baptist
>(surname) of Bejsak (Bayshark)-Colloredo-Mansfeld
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