Terry Carroll <71550.133@CompuServe.COM -- author of the Copyright FAQ> says:
> Hi. No, publishing a FAQ is probably not a fair use. A work is
> copyrighted as soon as it's produced, and posting it on usenet
> neither eliminates the copyright nor makes reproduction a fair use.
> And FWIW, the "All Rights Reserved" doesn't do anything any more.
> Every nation that is a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention
> (which is where that comes from) is now a signatory to either
> the Berne Convention or to the UCC.
I thought this might be the case -- I had just put it on my Copyrights
just to be safe. I guess I don't need *that* anymore.
> If this interests you, please check out my Copyright FAQ, located
> on RTFM, in the /pub/usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ, files
> part1 - part6.
> I don't have my old Internet access, so it's a major pain for me to
> reply to your message and direct it to the list. Please feel free
> to copy this to the list.
Well, there you go!
Wade
wade@nb.rockwell.com
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