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- From: jsfjp@acad1.alaska.edu (PERRICONE FRANK J)
- Subject: Re: British humour (was Re: discrepency in Guide)
- Message-ID: <22JAN199312231308@acad1.alaska.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:23:00 GMT
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- >I think this is true for most authors, because the US has really freaky copyright
- >laws... For instance, if I were to write a book hear and now, I'd have the
- >copyright (in fact, I have the copyright to this post...), except in the US,
- >because you have to apply (and pay, I think) to get copyrights. This is why so
-
- Nope, the laws are the same in the US. You have a copyright on that post even
- in the US. You are supposed to send in copyright REGISTRATION on anything you
- feel likely to be infringed, and pay $20, but that's just to make SURE that in
- any court case you have irrefutable proof of your copyright.
-
- Copyright really has little to do with the covers, that's an issue that the
- publisher and DA have to settle between themselves. Presumably DA didn't make
- a big enough fuss about what the covers should be and the publisher took it on
- themselves to design one; whether DA minds is something we'd have to ask him to
- find out.
-