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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: I want to print some articles
Message-ID: <215@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 2 Jan 90 11:53:41 GMT
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Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <6965@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM
	(Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 api.att.com!wcs) writes:
>You're posting from Canada, so I don't know the laws up there.
>Here in the US, our government recently ratified the Berne
>Copyright Convention

We're the latecomers, Bill.  It's because Canada was a signatory
and we weren't that books were usually "published simultaneously
in the United States and Canada"--that's how they got (some)
international recognition.  (I say "some" because there are other
things--like the words "all rights reserved" that figure in
international copyright protection.)

One of the standard documents that's supposed to be distributed
with the netnews software deals with U.S. Copyright Law and
related issues; to my knowledge it hasn't been updated post-BCIA,
although its author [Breslow] did a subsequent piece on Patent
Law as it applies to computer software.

Any lawyers out there care to comment?

					-=EPS=-