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From: uevans@ecsvax.UUCP (Elizabeth A. Evans)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Piracy????
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 00:29:27 EST
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	<The fact remains that it is ILLEGAL to copy programs and distribute 
< them to anyone, whether free of charge or not, if they are registered with
< the library of congress and protected under the copyright laws of the 
< United States.


Actually, you don't have to ** register ** the program to have
copyright protection.  If you write a program, and include the
required copyright notices, the program is copyrighted, whether
or not it is registered.  Potential penalties differ, however,
depending on whether the program (or any other copyrightable
material) is registered or not.

I'm not sure of the exact details for the copyright notices or the
differences in penalties, but could find out the ** basics ** if
people are interested, and there's nobody in NETland that does 
know.

-- Elizabeth A. Evans
   Dept of Psychiatry
   UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine