Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NISC.SRI.COM!cwilson From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: GS music player Message-ID: <12155@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> Date: 19 Jan 90 07:37:24 GMT References: <2429@ttardis.UUCP> Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 39 In article <2429@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes: >In article <881@batman.moravian.EDU>, nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) writes: [..] >>I was reading a reply by someone in comp.sys.amiga who had gotten the opinion >>of a copyright lawyer that anything posted on usenet for the use of others >>automatically forfeited his/her copyright since their software would end upon >>30,000 machines (or so). >> >>I'm kind of interested in what is said, because if this is so, I won't be >>posting ShrinkIt 3.0 or GS/ShrinkIt to comp.binaries.apple2 if I forfeit the >>copyright to the program (hope you can understand why). >> >>andy > [...] >In any case, if you have a question, ask your lawyer - if (s)he doesn't >know the answer, at least (s)he'll tell you who to ask. > >BUT, based on the aboved mentioned article, distributing your copyrighted >matterial for free shouldn't negate the copyright - of course, shareware >isn't exactly free....... Hmmm, distributing your software, via whatever medium, doesn't negate copyrights, that's assuming you've done "Copyright Me 1990" as opposed to "(C) Me 1990"... I've read someplace that the (C) DOES NOT stand for a "circle-c" as in copyright, so it has to be spelled out. Can't say if I've seen a court case where they've had this discussed, can't say I'd like to see it happen... enough nonsense already going on. --Chan ................ Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com cwilson@nic.ddn.mil AAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!! ...UUCP/GS in research phase. More to come... ................