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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware? Hah!
Summary: whine, sniffle
Message-ID: <2608@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 88 10:36:21 GMT
References: <4815@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <3343@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 45

In article <3343@killer.UUCP> davidg@killer.UUCP (David Guntner) writes:
>in article <4815@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) says:
>> 
>> If you want your shareware to succeed, then send it to EVERY magazine software
>> reviewer you can find, have heard of, or is even rumoured to exist.  Upload it
>> to GENIE, COMPUSERVE, etc.  Call into bulletin boards across the country
>> and upload it.  Post it to usenet.  When people make queries about applications
>
>
>One note:  Do NOT under any circumstance upload it to Compu$pend - I have heard
>that they have this weird idea that they hold the copywrite on ALL material
>that comes from their system, including things which users have uploaded!  I
>have heard that they have hassled some BBS's which were carring programs that
>a user would download from CI$ & then upload to the BBS in question.  If you
>want to avoid the hassle, avoid using Compu$pend.
>                            --Dave
>
>

Wrong.

If you upload a properly copyrighted file to compufuck they cannot usurp your
copyright by imposing their own.

If you upload a file there without a copyright notice, they will indeed
copyright it, and they are with their legal rights.

This article (c) 1988 by Richard J. Sexton

This article copyrighted by Richard J. Sexton

This article Copyrighted (c) 1988 by Richard J. Sexton

None of these are valid copyrights.



Copyright 1988 by Richard J. Sexton.

Ahh! Now this article is copyrighted.

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