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Re: Mecha Legs
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:01:59 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Matthew Miller writes:
> Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
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> > Exactly right. Further the copyright is by default! That is, you have to
> > disclaim it to immediately put something in the public domain. And I
> > believe in the US, at least, an explicit assertion is not required,
> > although it helps protect your rights by building awareness.
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> > The proper form of the assertion is to put the first AND the last year that
> > you worked on the work or its predecessors, as of when it was published.
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> It also should have the © symbol.
Um, check on that? IANAL* but I have heard that the c-in-a-circle is not
a good substitute for writing out thw word 'copyright'. I could be
misremembering, however - it may have been using (c) (like, in a plan text
file) that was not equivalent...
J
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| (...) You should have *both*: Copyright © 2000 Matthew Miller. All Rights Reserved. The last phrase doesn't do anything in the US, but apparently is good to have for some other countries. (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Mecha Legs
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| (...) Right. As of March 1989, published works do not need to have a copyright notice in order to gain protection. However, it's still good to put it there, because apparently "I didn't know that was copyrighted" has been a successful legal defense (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.underground, lugnet.publish)
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