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From: hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: What?  NO PD CHESS FOR MAC???
Keywords: chess
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.143047.9007@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 14:30:47 GMT
References: <4393@lanl.gov> <1990Oct30.194152.19138@wuarchive.wustl.edu> <7895@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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In article <7895@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) writes:
>In article <1990Oct30.194152.19138@wuarchive.wustl.edu> hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) writes:
>>If there is no copyright notice in the program itself,
>>can it then be copied freely ? (according to US copyright law)
>
>In recent years, works do NOT have to contain an explicit copyright notice
>in order to obtain U.S. copyright protection.  Works can be copyrighted
>AFTER they are published.
>
>If a lawyer wants to correct me, go ahead.  I'm pretty sure I have it all
>straight though.
>
>+++
>Lloyd Lim     Internet: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (128.120.57.20)
>              Compuserve: 72647,660
>              US Mail: 215 Lysle Leach Hall, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA 95616

How can I find out if the game is copyrighted ? What happens if i
distributed it, and then found out later that it was copyrighted ?
Or if the author claims copyright after I have distributed it ?
If I do a distributuion on the net, which country's copyright law is
then in effect for me ? I am living in Denmark, and will be sitting here
posting the stuff worldwide from an account in the USA.

I really want to post the program if I get no problems out of it.

Povl H. Pedersen
eco8941@ecostat.aau.dk   /   hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu

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