X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,2d793f7f11fbd8fb X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Alan W. Watkins" Subject: Re: On "borrowing" other pple's sigs Date: 1996/08/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172611861 references: <4nsq19$o1u@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> <4o8ftk$der@news.acns.nwu.edu> <4ocomq$fem@orm.southern.co.nz> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: North Carolina State University mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Pith Him wrote: > Yyyyyyyep. Yer sig isn't necessarily an opus or lifetime's achievement, > but if you drew it, you own it, publicly declared or not. The copyright > laws of the US declare any written work the property of the writer (That > doesn't include "I used the word "anal" in a book, and so you can't," of > course), and the same extends to other artistic mediums. And a sig is just > that. Bleh, I babble. This may be true, but say someone does take your sig, what can you do about it?