Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxhh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxhh!dxp From: dxp@pyuxhh.UUCP (D Peak) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.legal Subject: Re: Comprehensive Exam (4 hrs) Message-ID: <747@pyuxhh.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 10:17:01 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxhh.747 Posted: Tue Nov 6 10:17:01 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 00:27:18 EST References: <1909@ucla-cs.ARPA>, <1225@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 62 -->This exam is commercially available in poster form. It was -->cribbed for the net and printed (apparently) without permission. -->DON'T DO THAT! --> --> - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) --> Here we go again ! Half assed opinions based on assumptions ! HOW ABOUT POSTING SOME FACTS TO BACK UP YOUR OPINIONS ??????????? Here are some guidelines to determine if something is in the public domain or if it is protected by copywright. Is the work anonymous ? 1) If so it is highly unlikely that the work is copywrighted as copywright is the process of protecting an authors property(the work). 2) If the author is quoted i) Is the work a published work ? a) If yes the work MUST observe ALL strict formal copywright procedures for it to be afforded legal protection.Copywright is effective for 28 years from publication. An extension of another 28 years can be applied for. b) If not the work is afforded "common law" protection whereby others cannot use the work for their own profit. I presume the reasoning behind this is that if the author publishes a work he intends to seek financial gain from the work. If he decides not to publish then the author does not seek financial reward for his work but prevents others profitting from his/her labours. This is basically how copywrighting works in the USA, all other countries are satisfied with "common law" protection. Extra complications arise where a work is first published outside the US and later published in the US. More info available in any reasonably competent encyclopedia. A copywrighted article/poster/book can be identified by a capital c in a cicle, with the authors name and date of publication next to it(add 28 to see if it is still copywrighted).A Library of Congress number may or may not be present. I've seen several posters of dubious copywright authenticity due to the lack of one or more items , noticably the date (then you wouldn't know when it expired would you ). Back to "The Comprehensive Exam" article, I first saw this in England back in 1972 entitled "The Consultants Exam" ,(incidentally no author mentioned) when my father saw it he told me that it was "old hat" and that he had seen it in similar format when he was in the army in the late '40s and was entitled "The Officer Cadet Exam". So it looks like this this particular work has been around for a while, it may or may not have been copywrighted by someone ,somewhere ,sometime but it is probably not so now. But be CAREFUL !!!!!!!!! -- Dave Peak (pyuxhh!dxp) "He's a legend in his own mind"