Re: MBSA scanner

[Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfernandez () germinus com>]

Steven Trewick wrote:

> As of march 26, 2004, only *46* countries were signatory to the WIPO 
> treaty. A full list is available at :
>
> http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/documents/pdf/s-wct.pdf

That list is not complete. The EU should be included in the list. See
http://www.eurunion.org/legislat/iiprop/copyrigh.htm
(BTW, EU copyright directives are stricter than the WIPO treaty)

> So even assuming your legal arguments to be valid (which I would dispute,
> but IANAL), you are *way* overboard on your assumption of the universality 
> of relevant copyright law.

If you limit the focus to US and EU, my assumptions are not so 
overboard. Feel free to contradict me.

> Perhaps if you wish to continue the discussion of international copyright
> law, we could do it off list, as this is not really relevant to pen-testing.

Agreed.

Javier

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