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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Used DPAINT [I & II] for sale
Message-ID: <989@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 89 00:30:36 GMT
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In article <17050@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
| [...] but Federal copyright
| and case law clearly grant the exclusive statutory rights of authors,
               ^^^^^^^
| composers, playwrights, artists, programmers, publishers, and distributors to
| publish, dispose and control their works for (in the USA) 28 years, with
| privilege of one renewal for an additional 28 years.  Additionally, though not
| germane to the topic at hand, common-law property rights continue in effect
| until publication with or without copyright.

The April 89 CACM (V32#4) has contains "A self-assessment procedure
on the application of copyright law to computer programs".  I'll have
to go through it a few more times to understand anything, but the one
thing I did get out of it was that NOTHING is clear when it comes to
copyrights and computer software.

A word of warning though...  From the beginning of the article:

	This self-assessment procedure is not sanctioned as a
	test or endorsed in any way by ACM.  Any person using
	any of the questions in this procedure for the testing
	or certification of anyone other than him- or herself
	is violating the spirit of this self-assessment procedure
	and the copyright on this material.

:-)

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu