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From: lennartb@lne.kth.se (Lennart Boerjeson @ KTH/LNE, The Royal Inst. of Tech.)
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Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT -- WHY??
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Date: 30 Nov 90 15:33:42 GMT
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In article <75116.275699bc@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, apm279l@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
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>>COPYRIGHT -- WHY??

 [...lots of emotions...]

The need to insert a copyright notice in anything your mind or body produces
arises from the US tradition to sue your neighbour at ANY perceived or
imagined wrong, and from the lack of restraint or common sense in the courts.

So please don't flame the US people for their legal paranoia, they need it.

We other, luckier peoples, can just ignore it.

Which reminds me of a joke I once heard, relating to the relative success of
Japanese industry (I have no idea if the numbers told in the joke have anything
to do with reality---who cares? It's funny!) :
"In USA, there are 500 lawyers per engineer. In Japan, there are 500 lawyers."

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