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Message #00651
To: BEAM List beam@corp.sgi.com, Sathe Dilip sathe_dilip@bah.com
From: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:44:47 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Regarding Copyright
Actually yes, infact you don't even need the (c). If you paint a picture for
example, it's yours. Just because you did it. Unless you have a legal
document otherwise.
This is a very breif explination.
Dennison
>Wilf Rigter wrote:
>>
>> Hello fellow beamers
>>
>> Lest there is any misunderstanding about xxxx(c)wilf rigter, the
copyright
>> is a bit of a joke to Mark T.
>> whom I greatly admire! In fact I have no commercial interests in BEAM
>> technology and participate only from a sense of intelectual challenge and
>> satisfaction.
>>
>> Aside from the humour, (c) is my way of protecting ideas which I
contribute
>> to the BEAM community from the remote possibility that some may claim
them
>> for themselves, then copyright and exploit these ideas commercially to
the
>> exclusion of everyone else.
>
>I don't know anything about the copyright laws but is it enough for one
>to declare one's materials as copyrighted to gain this protection? If
>it is, more contributors to this list may want to do so in the spirit
>expressed above (i.e., prevention of commercial encroachment on
>previously expressed but non copyrighted materials)
>
>Dilip
>
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