Re: Spaghetti Publishers want your FAQ!

Michael S. Shappe (mss1@cornell.edu)
Fri, 14 Jan 1994 08:40:28 -0500

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At 19:40 940113 -0500, Timothy F. Sipples wrote:
>I believe Usenet convention dictates that any FAQ List posted to the Internet
>is automatically surrendered into the public domain. I don't think you can
>assert property rights over that.

USENET convention does not override law. Current copyright law in most of
the industrialized world is that any work that is published is
automatically copyrighted, and must be explicitly placed in the public
domain to be there. This is a reversal of the 'older' rules, where a work
was public domain unless explicitly copyrighted.

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Michael Scott Shappe
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