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From: gbc@cahaba.med.unc.edu (Geoff Crooks)
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Subject: Re: Copyrights on Usenet Articles
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Date: 11 Jan 90 18:55:29 GMT
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In article <24551@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>...anything you post to a BBS or to USENET, IRREGARDLESS OF ANY COPYRIGHT
>NOTICES YOU HAVE, is now in the public domain. If you want to 
>maintain a copyright, don't post it.

Hmmm... does this mean that the software posted to comp.binaries is placed
automatically in the public domaine?  I don't think so.  If you post an
article to the net, you *are* controlling distribution... to all those
computers which are on the net.  If you copyright an article, you are in
effect saying "this is mine" - read it, but DON'T go publishing it 
elsewhere NOT on the net (ie  a newspaper or print magazine).

Disclaimer: no, I'm not a lawyer.  In fact, since what I said is logical,
 it probably has nothing to do with the law at all.

Geoff.     
gbc@med.unc.edu