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From: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The USENET Macintosh Programmer's Guide
Message-ID: <3972@ece-csc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 19:39:07 GMT
References: <396@biar.UUCP> <2708@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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In article <2708@pegasus.ATT.COM> ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
>
>And to be brutally specific, Copyright precludes ANYONE ELSE from slapping
>a copyright on the work.  Without one, I can copyright the work and demand
>that YOU pay ME royalties for use.  Again, ask a lawyer for specifics.

True, you can publish PD material and cover it with an anthology copyright,
but so far as I understand it you can't keep someone else from doing
exactly the same thing (in a different anthology).  Right?

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