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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.sources,net.legal
Subject: Re: copyright notice
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 10:38:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 10:38:50 1986
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Sounds like nonsense to me.  If something is in the public domain, I
can do more or less anything with it, including making copies of it
with my copyright notice.  I can then stop anyone from copying my
copies, although they can, of course, still make copies of the public
domain copies, if they can find one.
	Also, a copyright notice needs only the year, no need for the
day or month.
					Donald
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