Re: Dufus and Rufus
____ On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:19:53 GMT
\__/___ The Silent Shadow ran through the
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>OK, I thank you for being a gentleman.
>However, copyright is probably one of the most misunderstood
>"concepts" ever. It protects no one in and of itself. All
>it does is give a person who has filed and received a written
>document of copyright that the work has been registered with
>the federal authority. It then becomes valuable only if there
>is litigation.
>There is even a specified form that the copyright notice must
>take for it to be valid. Otherwise, it is legally meaningless
>to just claim something to be copyrighted, such as "All rights
>reserved," etc.
No. Absolutely no copyright notice is required any more. It
automatically applies.
>I have used copyright laws in art, music composition, magazine
>articles, research papers and books that I have written in years
>past. Unless they have been changed, I think there is just a lot of
>wishful thinking about what copyright laws are meant to do in this
>news group.
>The greatest protection anyone can have for their work is to
>simply avoid placing it in the public domain altogether.
Publishing it does not place it in the public domain.
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