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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: copyright notice
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 23:29:41 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 23:29:41 1986
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In article <1096@ecsvax.UUCP>, dgary@ecsvax.UUCP writes:
> In article <2464@ukma.UUCP> sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) writes:
> >Webster's may say that "public domain" means that the author has no copyright,
> >but the courts may not see it that way, and what the courts say counts.
> 
> The law and the dictionary agree on this one.  See ANY reference on
> copyright law.

	Right.  It is a little confusing.  If you put a source out
on the net and say that anyone can use it any way they want, it is
public domain and there is no copyright.    The reference I have
assumes that you want to protect your software and does not
go into great detail about how to give it away.    If you put
it on the net and say that it is copyrighted (you might even have
registered it with the copyright office) is it still copyrighted?
From the way the book reads it is, though I cannot figure out
what restrictions would apply (the book is "Legal Care For Your
Software, Nolo Press - 1984).

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