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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: news.admin,sci.electronics,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The reality of Copyrights (was Re: network public domain?)
Message-ID: <5631@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 16:49:18 GMT
References: <1391@mtunb.ATT.COM> <3042@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <3042@stiatl.UUCP> john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
>And anybody who thinks a copyright attached to a Usenet posting confers
>any *REAL* protection is simply fooling themselves.
>
>The fact of the matter is that with a few exceptions, whoever has the most
>money wins in court.

But please note that posting to Usenet has little to do with it.  Any
form of publication makes it a challenge to defend your copyright if
you don't have money for a legal battle.

You must instead rely on publicity to defend you.  No big company wants
to get the reputation of ripping off the small guy.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
                    ARPA:  bsu-cs!dhesi@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu