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Message #00658



To: BEAM List beam@corp.sgi.com; Sathe Dilip sathe_dilip@bah.com
From: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Saturday, 20 February 1999 7:01
Subject: 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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|


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