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From: richard@sequent.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Copyright Violations/Humor/Satire/Michael J/Wierd Al/etc.
Message-ID: <440@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 21:48:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 21:48:56 1984
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>>  From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP
>>                                     ...  If you ever write something
>>  you wish to be published, put a copyright notice on the material, make
>>  a copy, then mail the copy (making sure you get a post office date stamp
>>  on it) to yourself or anyone else you want to hold it....

Sorry, but this method won't hold up.  Nothing prevents people from
sending unsealed letters through the mail.  So someone could send
a letter to himself today, then in three years copy a best-seller,
seal it in the envelope, and then what?

The method I heard is to send the letter via *registered mail* - the
nice person at the post office will make sure it's sealed, and when
you sign for it at home, simply don't open it.  With the seal unbroken,
it's good enough for the courts.  The prefered method, of course,
is to have it notarized.

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				...!sequent!richard