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From: rupp@noscvax.UUCP (William L. Rupp)
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Subject: copyright notices
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 17:27:39 EST
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Several other persons have clarified the details of the copyright notice 
question, so I will not cover that ground again.  I will pass on something a
copyright lawyer told me a couple of years ago.  He said that a party may claim
a copyright on a work (by including a copyright notice on any copies, not
allowing it to be used in the public domain, etc.) without formal registration 
of that copyright.  If said party wishes to sue someone for infringement, he or 
she may then go ahead and register the work.  As I recall, the attorney said
that you can sue someone even though the work has not been formally registered,
although there are advantages in court derived from registration.