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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: Copyrighting
Keywords: copyright
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Date: 19 Mar 91 17:13:24 GMT
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In article <45795@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>Really? I thought that under some "new" (1975??) copyright law, programs (among
>other things) were automatically copyrighted (or something like that)...
   Software is automatically copyrighted, but you can still register it at
the Copyright Office- a good idea if you're going commercial with your program.
$10 is nothing compared to the legal fees you'd have to pay in case of a
copyright "mixup".

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