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- From: nigel@ietech.demon.co.uk ("Nigel G. Backhurst")
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!ietech.demon.co.uk!nigel
- Subject: Electronic publication
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- References: <1992Aug31.101259.9684@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: IE Technical Services Holland
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:59:34 +0000
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- In article <1992Aug31.101259.9684@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
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- >
- >
- >
- >I've got the info (temporarily mislaid--I'll find it after I wake up, no
- >doubt) on ClariNet (sp?), a plan to publish reprint short stories and
- >reimburse authors depending on how many subscribers ($5.00 a month) to the
- >service download their stories.
- >
- >Anyone got an opinion on whether this would put your story in the public
- >domain?
- >
- >
- >Bonita Kale
- >
- >
- I don't think it would if you had a clear copyright notice on the story.
- At least it would not appear to for English authors, copyright comes into
- being on publication, and showing a copy of the story to my mother counts
- as publication. I think the rules are different in the States, and you
- may find yourself with a problem there.
-
- If I have copyright in England, I have copyright in all the Berne
- Convention countries. It then takes a specific act to release the
- document into the public domain. Putting it onto a subscription service
- where one is getting a fee for each download, would not amount, in my
- opinion to such an act. The fact that a fee is payable to the author
- in respect of the number of downloads, would indicate that the
- document is not in the Public Domain.
-
- Nigel
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