Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mfci!yale!ockerbloom-john From: ockerbloom-john@CS.YALE.EDU (John A. Ockerbloom) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: The Cincinnatus Society of Pinheads Message-ID: <40883@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 21 Oct 88 05:13:29 GMT References: <15638@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <7068@dasys1.UUCP> <391@flatline.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: ockerbloom-john@CS.YALE.EDU (John A. Ockerbloom) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 23 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article <391@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes: >In article <7068@dasys1.UUCP>, tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: >> Unfortunately I believe anything you post here is in the public domain >> unless you take the trouble to (C) Copyright your remarks every time. > >Rule: If you really care about it, Copyright it. All it takes is putting >"Copyright " in the work, on the work, or as a part >of the work. (On the back of a painting is legal, for instance.) If you >don't care about it that much, don't bother. It's still protected, but >you can't win as much. Also, from what I remember, you can indicate a copyright notice by the word "Copyright", the abbreviation "Copr." or the C-within-a-circle symbol (not available in ASCII). The C within parentheses "(C)", however, does NOT cut it. Or at least so claimed a Library of Congress publication I got a few years back. If the law has changed since then, someone should correct me. John Ockerbloom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ockerbloom@cs.yale.EDU ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!ockerbloom ocker@yalecs.BITNET Box 5323 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520