Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU!FVEST From: FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga animations on VHS now available Message-ID: <9006050110.AA29726@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 5 Jun 90 01:18:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 23 Stephen Menzies wrote: > RGB is RGB, Video is something else. When I distribute work on the >public domain it is freely distributable providing it remains INTACT and >UNALTERED Unfortunately, this is not the law. When you place work in the PUBLIC DOMAIN you relinquish these rights. What you want to do is retain the rights to *derivative rights*. Release your animation with a notice that reads: Copyright 1990, Stephen Menzies. This material may be freely distributed as long as is is not altered or distributed in any form other than as an executable program (or whatever it is). I am not a lawyer...hell, I don't even like lawyers :-) //========================================================================\\ || Floyd Vest // WAR \\ fvest@ducvax.auburn.edu || || Auburn University \\ EAGLE // FVEST@AUDUCVAX.bitnet || \\========================================================================//