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From: keld@freja.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Copyright on Usenet (was Re: The Cincinnatus Society of Pinheads)
Message-ID: <4158@freja.dk>
Date: 31 Oct 88 16:04:04 GMT
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I am not sure about the legal copyright protection of a non-U.S.A.
article distributed in the U.S.A.  f.i. by news. But take the
news example, the article would be considered "published" as it
(normally) reaches U.S.A. within 30 days and the reader
(news-reader) is anonymious to the author. I am not sure at all
if news articles are considered "published" - but I assume they are.

Then the non-U.S.A. article is considered published in the USA,
and thus you have to follow ordinary USA copyright rules to protect
your work. That is write "Copyright 1988 by Keld Simonsen" for
instance.