Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:28992 misc.legal:18959 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vmp!oc From: oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,misc.legal Subject: Re: The comp.sys.atari.st.tech vote -- clarifications Message-ID: <1990Jun15.011556.27422@vmp.com> Date: 15 Jun 90 01:15:56 GMT References: <1990May15.131803.17231@wam.umd.edu> <18313@rpp386.cactus.org> Organization: Video Marketing & Publications, Inc., Oradell, NJ Lines: 25 In article , ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: > In article <1990May22.023212.9736@melba.bby.oz.au> zvs@bby.oz.au (Zev Sero) writes: > | In article <1990May18.214123.14992@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> schultzd@frith.uucp (David Schultz) writes: > | > | If someone sends me U.S. mail, I can do whatever the He** I want with it, > | including xerox it and mail it to everyone in the World! > | > | No, you can't. Not without the writer's permission. Ever heard of > | copyright? > > I'm not so sure! Doesn't the copyright have to be explicit? And > what's in *my* mailbox becomes *my* property, isn't that so? Copyright, by the most recent legislation in the United States (your mileage may vary in other parts of the world), does not have to be explicit. The copyright is implicit in the creation of the work. A person retains the copyright for their work whether or not there is an explicit copyright notice and whether or not the work is published. It is no one's property except the original author's. -- Orlan Cannon oc@vmp.com Video Marketing & Publications, Inc. (800) 627-4551 Oradell, NJ 07649