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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The 12121 check digit algorithm
Message-ID: <417@quad.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 90 19:42:09 GMT
References: <1498@skye.ed.ac.uk> <599@xdos.UUCP> <1473@mdbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Organization: Quadric Systems, Richfield MN
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In article <1473@mdbs.UUCP> wsmith@mdbs.UUCP (Bill Smith) writes:
: >From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
: >Since you gave no copyright notice (which is required to say "copyright"
: >along with your name & year of publication), this is now public domain.
:
:According to information disseminated by my University, US copyright law 
:does not require a copyright notice to assert copyright (although it helps).

Mr. Smith is correct here: until recently a copyright notice was required
to assert copyright, but that was changed last year by the terms of the
Berne Convention.

(I'm not a lawyer, just someone who has a lot of copyrighted material to
be concerned about...)

-- 
David Sandberg             dts@quad.uucp or ..uunet!rosevax!sialis!quad!dts
"What's the difference between 12-bit and 16-bit?  A lot more than 4 bits!"