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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.legal,net.flame,net.jokes,net.news
Subject: Re: Copyright Violations/Humor/Satire/Michael J/Wierd Al/etc.
Message-ID: <439@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 13:29:19 EST
Article-I.D.: sequent.439
Posted: Wed Mar 28 13:29:19 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Mar-84 03:00:32 EST
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<- Eat it, line gobbler (where's the beef?)

~~...!nbires!opus!rcd in opus.275 sez:

	....How
	does Mr. Schwartz simultaneously place his satirical "Repeat it" in the
	public domain and reserve ALL rights to it???...The net is clearly
	distribution into the public domain since there is no provision
	in its operation for restricting distribution based on the
	presence of a copyright notice within the news item....

	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd

~~ end quote

First off, I wanna know why opus!rcd always sez that his return address
is "nbires!rcd".  Is this a deliberate attempt to hide? (:<})

Second (actually first)... "Publishing" my "song" on the net DOES NOT
place it into the PUBLIC DOMAIN any more than publishing the C spec in
K&R's White C book.  If you'll look after the front cover, you'll see
that it says "Copyright (C) 1978 by [BTL]." and later says "All rights
reserved.".  What "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" means is that ANY copying is
done WITHOUT my PERMISSION, but my permission is needed to do it
LEGALLY.  I alone, reserve that right fully.  This also mean that IF
you copy MY song, THEN I have the RIGHT to have you NOT DO THAT.  Of
course, anything you could do to my song, you could do to the White C
book.  And it would be just as illegal either way.  Truely, I am not a
traffic cop.  I will not come looking on every system to see that you
haven't done that.  Actually, I implicitly gave permission for
distribution throughout the net by the news programs by posting it on
the net.  BUT, ANY OTHER COPYING THAT I WANT TO STOP, I HAVE THE RIGHT
TO STOP IT!  The song is not automatically in public domain.  In fact,
the Copyright Notice I gave at the end of the song, DEFINES it as NOT
being PUBLIC DOMAIN, by mere declaration.

By the way, if anyone chooses to republish the song in hardcopy form
for redistribution, I will grant republishing rights, provided I AM
NOTIFIED AND AGREE TO IT FIRST.  (Royalties will not be collected, and
I usually ask for a personal copy.)

Not afraid to name that tune,
Randal L. Schwartz, esq. (merlyn@sequent.UUCP)
	(Official legendary sorcerer of the 1984 Summer Olympics)
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Original Material (C) 1984 by Randal L. Schwartz [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]
(Does anyone want to see "Let's get Visicalc(TM)?")