Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 07:21:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dave Alan Coon (:" <dcoon@ksu.edu>
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
cc: Sociology Graduate Students -- International <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Copyright
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There is a really great article about Internet Copyrighting:

Loundy, David J. 1996. "A Basic Primer on Copyrights on the World Wide 
Web."  _JOURNAL_OF_APPLIED_COMMUNICATIONS_. Vol. 80, No. 4.

This article explains what all you need to do to post stuff to the web.
Basically, if you write something yourself, it is automatically 
copyrighted, but when posting it to the Web, the  problem,  is that there 
is no proof that you were actually the first to write it because someone 
else can simply download it and claim to have written it first.

Basically, if you include a copyright notice you will be safe according 
to Loundy, but he says notifying the U.S. copyright office is best. I 
STRONGLY recommend this article because it is specifically geared toward 
copyrighting on the web.

Just my 2 cents worth...


Sincerely,

David Coon 
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~dcoon 
MA Student & Graduate Teaching Asst.
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work  http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/
Kansas State University