At 12:13 AM 11/04/98 -0500, Ken Hooper wrote: " is meaningless, you cannot publish the compilation without >publishing the messages so you still need explicit permission or at least >something that passes for a contract. > Let me try again. Just because you write something doesn't mean you hold the copyright. In fact, there is no copyright unless you say so on the item. So far, I haven't noticed any copyright notice on anything published on this list, so it's all common domain. Except, of course, this item. Because I am about to copyright it. Copyright (my keyboard doesn't have the shorthand symbol, a 'c'in a circle) by Ian Cameron. There. Now no one can copy this (except for quotation in a review and in a number of other cicumstances) without paying me. Or I'll spend thousand of $$$ suing him or her or them. The reason I'm familiar with this stuff is that I do a fair amount of writing for periodicals, and belong to the Canadian Authors Assn. As you can imagine, coryright is a major concern. But there's a difference between intellectual property and anything you create, the difference being the declaration of exclusive ownership. |
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