copyright etc... (fwd)

From: Brett M. Turner (brett@marble.bu.edu)
Date: 08/25/94


This came to the circle-owner.  I have forwarded it to all of you.

-b

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    Brett M. Turner                                   brett@marble.bu.edu 
                Yaz  -- HexOnyx MUD -- marble.bu.edu 7777

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 13:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mulac <onty@netcom.com>
To: circle-owner@marble.bu.edu
Subject: copyright etc...

Im just curious...Do any of you actually have a legal background, from
which to make all these assumptions?!?  Sounds like alot of cyberspace
heresay?????  I hear so much poppycock batted around the net, an informed
comment is rare.  I have looked into this matter myself and consulted several
lawyers, at my own expense!

The short of what I have learned amounts to the following:

If you are gonna even hope to have a solid case for copyright violation...
you had better have filed ALL the necessary US paperwork!

 
-Jon



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