Re: More about the Walnut Creek CD-ROM

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> Well, as previously mentioned on this mailing list, my FAQs have an
> explicit statement encouraging people to indulge in wholesale
> duplication of the documents. But you seem to be assuming that we're
> talking about US law, where it makes a difference whether you have a
> copyright statement.

This is a common, but incorrect, belief. Under U.S. law, all creative
works are automatically protected by copyright whether they bear a
copyright statement or not. The absence of such a statement does not
grant any sort of permission to anyone.

Would-be publishers should assume that they *cannot* copy a given work
unless they are expressly granted permission by the copyright owner.

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