Re: Rights in early RFCs

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

John Levine wrote:

> In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>>> to publish a spec for how to do $foo over the Internet. Their spec
>>> quotes small parts of various RFCs to make the requirements clear for
>>> the vendors who will implement $foo because those vendors do not
>>> normally use IETF standards. ...
> 
>> That would seem to fall under fair use.  How could quoting a spec NOT be
>> considered fair use.

> D) Fair use only applies in the U.S.  Some other countries have Fair
> Dealing, but the rules are different, so if something is fair use in
> the US, that doesn't mean it's fair dealing elsewhere.  Most other
> countries also have moral rights which further constrain what you
> can quote without permission.

Free quotation is internationally permitted by Berne convention:

https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=283698
Article 10
Certain Free Uses of Works:
1. Quotations;
(1) It shall be permissible to make quotations from a work which has
already been lawfully made available to the public, provided that
their making is compatible with fair practice, and their extent does
not exceed that justified by the purpose, including quotations from
newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries.

						Masataka Ohta