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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: New compromise position on rec.humor.funny
Message-ID: <25810@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 17:18:55 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer, AUX Developer Tech Support
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>On April 1st, 1989 a new copyright law takes effect. Under it you no
>longer have to include a copyright notice to claim a copyright!!!
>Thus on the net we are going to have to start assuming that anything
>*without* a SPECIFIC diclaimer of copyright is in fact copyrighted.

>This is going to be a major mess...

Even more of a mess, since the new rules only apply as long as the messages
are in the U.S. As soon as the message flows through the wire to Canada,
international copyright takes over and the implicit copyright goes away. So
if someone picks up the messages at a Canadian site, they don't have to
worry about the implicit copyright (unless Canadian copyright also
acknowledges the implicit copyright, which I'm not sure it does)







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