mcc@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett) (11/01/88)
Joel: The technical requirement of filing is satisfied by the inclusion of the copyright statement in the text. It is not essential to hire an attorney to perform the filing of a formal copyright.
wrl@FORD-COS2.ARPA (Bill Lewandowski) (11/02/88)
Joel, On copyrights, No, you do not have to register them with anyone that I know of. By marking a paper or E-Mail message you sent as 'copyright', only the creator or his agents can give permission to re-produce or distribute the copyrighted material. In theory, an E-Mail user can send a copyrighted e-mail to the tcp-ip distribution list and have his copyright intact because the author knowingly sent it to a distribution list. The copyright does though forbid any one who receives the message from giving it or copying it. (Automatic distribution is ok as long as it is part of the sending it the mailing list even if the distribution is not done by SRI-NIC because we all know that this list is far reaching). A receiver could not manually forward it though. DISCLAMER: I'm not a lawyer but thats the way it was explained to me. P.S. I agree with Dave Mills though, I don't think this forum should be for copyrighted or registered materials. Bill