Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copyright Notice (Amiga specific question)
Message-ID: <4509@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 21:54:00 GMT
References: <4815@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <3343@killer.UUCP> <2608@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1771@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <16964@think.UUCP> <7108@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <7108@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>
>"The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain the following
>three elements:
>
>* The symbol --unprintable-- (The letter C in a cirle) [this symbol is
>not ASCII so you can't se it here. MP], or the word "Copyright" or the
>abbreviation "Copr."; and
>
> [ year and name of author ]

I wonder what the situation is where you might include a "c in a circle"
character in an Amiga text file, and it gets changed somewhere along the
line to a ')' by something which rejects hi-bit-set characters?

Would you lose copyright protection? Is a text file (which after all is
meant to be read) considered a "visually perceptible copy"?

John
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