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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Copyrighting
Keywords: legal
Message-ID: <1431@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 88 16:45:25 GMT
References: <4815@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <3343@killer.UUCP> <2608@gryphon.CTS.COM> <333@esquire.UUCP> <22977@brunix.UUCP> <188@vixen.uucp>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <188@vixen.uucp> joe@vixen.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) writes:
>    [ .... ]
>I sent for copyright info booklets from the government 1 or maybe 2 years ago.
>It said thus:
> ...
>	Copyright 1988 Joe Hitchens All Rights Reserved  (is correct)
> ...

The lack of punctuation leads to some interesting possibilities ( smile ).
Imagine that the Not family named their son Thomas Thompson Not, and later
Tom Not became an author of Computer software. His copywrite line would
look like this:

	Copyright 1988 Joe Thompson Not All Rights Reserved

Why not have a "comma" or a "." in there somewhere?
-- 
 L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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