copyright notice

[Don Steiny]

In article <1113 at ecsvax.UUCP>, dgary at ecsvax.UUCP writes:
> In article <604 at scc.UUCP> steiny at scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes:
> >	The term "public domain" is unrelated to copyrights.  
> 
> Absolutely not true.
> 
	He is right, I am wrong.  The book I was getting the
info from actually says: "For a work to be in the public
domain and therefor not copyrightable, it must be published
in such a way that it looses its copyright protection.  Suppose
that Tom published an object code listing (in hex, assembly language,
or binary) of JunkMail in *Gulp* magazine along with the suggestion
than anyone wishing to use it could do so. By doing this
Tom has put JunkMail in the public domain.  Another way of
allowing a work to fall into the public domain is to 
publish it without a copyright notice and fail to rectify
this within the next five years." [p. 28]
> 
> 	Publishing a work without
> copyright notice effectively surrenders ownership to the public domain.

	If you fail to rectify it in the next five years.
> 
> >	This information is in "Legal Care for your Software"
> >Nolo Press, by Daniel Remer.
> 
> >	The stuff about giving a copy to the Library of Congress
> >or some other library is nonsense.
> 
>  The Library of Congress disagrees with you.
	
	Perhaps this is so.  It is a requirement that has nothing
to do with copyrights though.
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