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From: j~im.enterprise.net
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:23:56 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: Whining about copyright


On 5 Sep 1996, Winslow Yerxa wrote:

> >Legally speaking, anything you post on harp-l WITHOUT a copyright can be
> >freely reprinted by anyone, and is in the public domain. Anything posted
>
> Are you quite sure about that, Hugh? My understanding is that natural
> copyright consists in anything at its moment of creation, and that
> publication does not constitute surrender of copyright, even without a
> copyright notice.

In the real world you are most definitely right, however, as far as I
am aware, the internet thing has not been sorted out yet (and probably
never will be in all countries). People are still trying to figure out
wether or not a bunch of 1's and 0's can be copywrited, especialy on
mailing lists, where they can suddenly 'appear' at thousands of different
locations throughout the world without ever 'physicaly' existing in the
first place.I have not read the new American Internet laws yet, so I don't
know if or how they cover this, but, certainly in Winslow's or any other of
our professional writer's cases, a copyright notice seems sensible to er on
the side of caution.
Any lawyers out there (on the American side, obviously:-)

Jim Bassey