At 10:21 PM -0600 09/04/00, Denis McKeon wrote:
>Copyright exists whether an explicit statement is present or not.
>Registration has not been required for some time, but may be
>a pre-requisite for recovering damages, IIRC.
Specifically, you can recover actual damages in any case. Registration
(before the infringement) allows you to recover triple damages and
attorneys' fees.
>Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ is a good current resource on this topic,
>but it seems to still be in transition between ISPs - it is no longer
>at:
I also recommend it. The Usenet version at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/law/copyright/faq/
was last posted in 1994, but AFAIK all the basics remain the same, and
for the purposes of a discussion at this level everything there should
be accurate.
>In the many discussions I've seen on the net about copyright, I would
>guess that at least 20% of what is offered as fact is inaccurate -
>[...] That 80/20 estimate also applies to this post.
This one too.
For the record, I include a copyright notice which conforms to the
legal requirements, but I regard it mostly as a preventive measure, not
a legal one.
Edward Reid
*************************************************************
To unsubscribe send a message to majordomo@faqs.org as
unsubscribe faq-maintainers fill-in-your-email-address-here
*************************************************************
[
FAQ Archive |
Search FAQ Mail Archive |
Authors |
Usenet References
]
[
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000
]
© Copyright The Internet FAQ Consortium, 1997-2000
All rights reserved