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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Copyrighting
Keywords: copyright
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Date: 19 Mar 91 14:41:32 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.043951.23178@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, bazyar@ernie (Jawaid
Bazyar) writes:
>In article <24613@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1637a@prism.gatech.EDU (John
Matus) writes:
>>[programs, wishes to copyright]
>>By the way, how much does it cost???  <-- Important question.. College
>>students have almost no cash... at anytime.
>
>   $10.  Go to your local Federal Building (or call) and they can tell you
>all about how to get the proper forms from the Copyright office in Washington
>DC.

Really? I thought that under some "new" (1975??) copyright law, programs (among
other things) were automatically copyrighted (or something like that)...
You have
to pay the US Patent office to register a trademark (the (r), not the (tm)) 
though.

>--
>Jawaid Bazyar               |"I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." 
>Senior/Computer Engineering |
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of K&R".
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