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From: smo5cs@azstarnet.com (Coder)
Subject: Re: On "borrowing" other pple's sigs
Date: 1996/05/28
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Daniel Au (dcau@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) wrote:
: I now hereby give Jasmine (and Jasmine alone) permission to use this sig, as
: long as a small [dcau] is included, and I extend apologies to her for using
: her in this article in order to inform other readers of this newsgroup. 
: Imitation is a form of flattery (or so they say) and I'm am honored you liked
: my sig enough to use it :)

The unfortunate thing about what you are attempting to do is that it is a
day late and a dollar short.  
However, ackording to the Berne convention, you do not need to put any
type of copyright notice in your original work to lay claim to it. 
It is recommended that you do put a copyright notice on any original works
if you ever want to pursue any violations in a court of law, because those
that don't fail miserably at a high rate.

Anyone using your .sig could do so freely as long as they put a copyright
notice as a "derivative work" or make claim that it is such in some
fashion, still of course giving you credit in the original fashion.

I do agree that folks who put effort into creating any type of publicly
available work, program, code, or art should be givin credit by those
utilizing such for whatever reasons.

Be good,
-MM