Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!src.honeywell.com!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!tukki!tt From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 90 13:13:42 GMT References: Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: University of Jyvaskyla Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu's message of 30 Nov 90 14:14:00 GMT In article peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu writes: > In fact, it will prevent it, if you persue it. I believe that in this > country, copyright law states that something can be considered copyrighted > provided it spells out "COPYRIGHT" or displays the small 'c' with a circle > around it. This is out of date. The USA joined the Berne copyright convention a few years ago, and since then everything copyrightable is born with copyright, whether it is explicitly claimed or not. You must explicitly disclaim your copyright or declare your work public domain or give whatever rights you want people to have (like "may be freely used for non-commercial purposes"). There is also a "fair use" clause allowing copying for personal use and partial quoting for review purposes, but redistribution, even for free, is prohibited. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. Don't take my word for it. (Try misc.legal if you want more details.) -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)