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Re: [faq-maintainers] Question about replacing a maintainer

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From: rkiesling@mainmatter.com
Date: Tue May 08 2001 - 02:32:31 CDT

Kade Hansson <kade_fh@postoffice.utas.edu.au> writes:
>
> At 09:35 PM 5/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Robin writes:
> >> ...
> >>Unless there was a copyright notice attached to it, posting it
> >>makes it public property.
> >
> > This used to be true before the US Copyright law was changed to fit
> >the international standards (Berne Convention?) ... [snip]
>
> This would only have been true in the US, of course. And the last time I
> checked, the Internet wasn't entirely contained within the US. :-)

The notice attached to the document itself doesn't make much difference,
I'm told. Default copyright protections exist unless the work contains
an explicit notice that it is released to the public domain. If the
_creator_ of the work registered the copyright (with whatever office it is
in the country the person who claims copyright resides in), then he or she
has extra additional protections. But hey, IANAL, YMMW, FWIW, etc.,
ad infinitum. YAWN 

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Robert Kiesling
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