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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Amiga animations on VHS now available
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Date: 1 Jun 90 06:22:34 GMT
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In article <1421@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>(from Circular 93 -- Hightlights of U.S. Adherence to the Berne COnvention)
>>"Presumption of copyright validity. The copyright owner who registers before
>>or within 5 years of first publication receives the benefit of legal 
>>presumption in court, called prime facia evidentiary weight. [...]
>
>Hey Marco, one slight flaw here.  You can't register a copyright if it isn't
					     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>*in* the work.  This is what we're talking about here.  The omission of it.
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>He can register it *after* he corrects the omission, not until.

You are using a language that doesn't make any sense. Nobody can "register 
a copyright", one "registers WORKS". 

What "is *in* the work"?  Do you mean a copyright notice?  If you do, then 
you're dead wrong"

"MANDATORY NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT IS ABOLISHED -- Mandatory note of copyright is
abolished for works published for the first time on or after march 1, 1989.
Failure to place a notice of copyright on copies or phonorecords of such 
works can no longer result in the loss of copyright." (Circ. 93)

You say: "The omission of *it*. He can register it *after* he corrects the
omission, not until."  

The omission of what? If it is the omission of copyright notice that you
mean, you're dead wrong there too. As of March 1, 1989 a person can legally
REGISTER with the copyright office works that bear NO copyright notice 
WHATSOEVER. So the phrase "He can register it *after* he corrects the 
omission, not until." is just b.s. Capisce?	

-- Marco
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