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- Newsgroups: rec.humor.d
- Path: sparky!uunet!looking!funnyr
- From: funnyr@clarinet.com (Funny Guy)
- Subject: Re: The Twelve Bugs of Christmas is NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!!
- Class: misc
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Distribution: rec
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:45:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.094547.29962@clarinet.com>
- References: <SCANNELL.92Dec16125150@bubba.ma30.bull.com> <1992Dec18.225114.6274@desire.wright.edu> <BURLEY.92Dec19032806@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- burley@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
- >While it is true that posting something you truly want to protect as
- >copyrightable to rec.humor.funny or anywhere else is likely to be seen
- >as an _invitation_ by others to copy your work without credit, thus creating
-
- Only an invitation by those who don't know what copyright is. The whole
- *point* of copyright is to protect your rights in something *after* you
- publish it widely. The argument, "you cast it to the winds of the net,
- don't expect to retain rights" is silly. The whole point of copyright
- is to let you publish your work as widely as possible and still retain
- the rights. Anyway, that's an old debate.
-
- RHF is compilation copyrighted, and a reminder of it is posted each month.
- Items within marked original are the property of their authors, and all
- people should contact them before reproducing them.
-