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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs & Copyright Laws
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 19:44:21 EDT
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From: z@masscomp.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman) Message-ID: <736@masscomp.UUCP>:

>I liked your example of the invalid copyright notice.  The problem, of
>course, is that the international copyright symbol is a C with a circle
>around it, and the parentheses don't quite qualify.  Adding the word
>"Copyright" is sufficient protection under U.S. law.  However, this word
>does not satisfy international copyright law, which accepts only the
>circle C.  This leads to the interesting situation that there is no way
>no put an internationally valid copyright notice into an ASCII source
>file.
>
>	Steve Zimmerman
>	Masscomp
>
>

Would a graphical representation such as:

          ### 
      #         #
    #    #####    #
   #     #         #
   #     #         #
    #    #####    #
      #         #
          ###

cut the mustard?

-Dan-
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