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From: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: compilation copyright question
Keywords: poster's rights
Message-ID: <96@artsnet.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 89 03:43:54 GMT
References: <5982@leadsv.UUCP> <25545@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
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In article <25545@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Raspach) writes:
>[...]
>2) This applies to U.S. copyrights. International copyrights are a whole 
>   different ballgame -- and, for what it's worth, Brad is in Canada, so
>   international copyrights apply. (For that matter, Brad could be in Armenia,
>   and if he picked up the stuff in Canada, Canadian copyright law would be
>   in force. Once it crosses the borders, the protections of the U.S. laws
>   go away, even if that's the point of publication).
>
>[...]
>
>The bottom line: If you post something, you own a copyright to that material.
>Practically speaking, however, that means nothing -- because the data flows
>internationally and many of the restrictions of implicit copyright are 
>meaningless once they leave the borders of the U.S. So if you want to protect
>your work, put an explicit copyright on it and note whatever restrictions you
>require.

  For those interested in international protections, the U.S.A. is
party to two major agreements: The International Copyright
Convention, and the Pan-American Copyright Convention.
  Protection under the International Copyright Convention is
indicated by the "circle-C" [ or (c) and (C) for ascii files ].
  Protection under the Pan-American Copyright Convention is
represented by the phrase "All Rights Reserved" [ or its
equivalent in other languages ].
  Now you know what those markings are for.
  In the U.S.A., the word "Copyright" is no longer necessary where the
"circle-C" is used.
  I do recommend including the Pan-American protection phrase which
covers countries like Brazil and Argentina, which are apparantly
not party to the ICC.

--Mark Gresham
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