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From: corwin@hope.UUCP (John Kempf)
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Subject: Re: Is Public Domain subject to national boundaries?
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Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 18:08:48 EST
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> I just couldn't let that one go by.  "Not public domain in the United States"?
> Supposed I get a public domain copy in Germany and bring it here?
> Does it cease to be public domain?  How can its US copyright be retained
> when it is freely available to "the public"?
> -- 
Hong Kong does not honor US copyright laws, so just about anything published
there has stamped on it 'not for import to the US' or something similar.
this may be a similar case.
-cory