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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PD or Shareware Copyrights
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Date: 27 Jun 89 17:10:38 GMT
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In article <556@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com> crs@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com (Chris (Is it Friday yet?!?!?) Seaman) writes:
>In article <18058@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>I was once told (by someone who claimed to have advised by an attorney) that
>if you were to take your work (i.e., source code, artwork, or whatever),
>put in an envelope (or diskette mailer), seal it in such a way that a
>postal mark would cover the seal, and mail it to yourself, that this
>would be binding evidence of copyright in court.  Does this still hold
>under the Berne Convention?

Funny... My lawer told me not to waste my money on such postage.  Hmmmm....

>Or, more importantly, does posting >to Usenet constitute publication?

As I understand it, anyone seeing it outside of the author(s) constitutes
publication. In other words, as long as it stays in your company, you are
OK, but if you take a listing home to show your friend your neat new
kludge, that is publication.

>< >DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer. I just have a layman's knowledge about it.
>< DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer either, though I have one and have registered
>DISCLAIMER: Amen.
DISCLAIMER: Ditto.               -- Darren