X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f953f301357e6f7b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-26 17:00:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!HSNX.atgi.net!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!news.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail From: Bateau Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Dufus and Rufus Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:55:36 +0800 Message-ID: References: <3c0034e3.9777573@news.cox-internet.com> <3c0060e6.38718081@news.concentric.net> <3c01c702.2160639@news.cox-internet.com> <3c01c426.56475582@news.concentric.net> <3c024c89.10308644@news.cox-internet.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: i110-021.nv.iinet.net.au X-Trace: news.iinet.net.au 1006822629 22073 203.59.110.21 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:11759 ____ On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:19:53 GMT \__/___ The Silent Shadow ran through the LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art | waving an axe and screaming: / \ >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. -- | _ .\ ~~ _ ^~ | <')_,/ , ; .\ >(')__, . ` ' , | (_~=/ \._`.'. .\ (_~_/ _, _..-''-._,____,----,____ | ='- \=~_) ; .\ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ `'--'` `~~~~)_)=\_\-.( | -'= .\ ~^~ ~^~~^~ ICQ:11367619 EMAIL:bateau:-)jupiter-io.net WEB:http://tyrian2000.cjb.net