RE: Copyrights on the web

Bryan Cort (bryanc@mps01.mpservices.com)
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:29:39 -0500

>At least in Canada, having created it by writing it down gives you a
>copyright regards less of whether you put a little (C) on the document.
>Some times though the copyright is owned by an employer instead of an
>individual but there is always somebody or something that holds a
>copyright to everything. This rule applies from writing on a cave wall
>to the publishing on the Web.
>
>Ted Sullivan

There is a registration process that is used to aid in persuing copyright
infringement cases. If a work is not registered it is not impossible to
carry an infringement case, but it is much more difficult from what I have
read.

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>>From: Charlie Brown[SMTP:chuckb@ll.net]
>>Sent: Monday, September 09, 1996 6:43 PM
>>To: robots@webcrawler.com
>>Subject: Copyrights on the web
>>
>>An interesting discussion of copyrights has come up Re: The Internet
>>Archive robot, and I have a question for you all. I'm sure we all have
>>opinions on what copyrights are, what they stand for, etc. What I want
>>to know is this: can anyone just say a piece of information is
>>copyrighted, such as a web page, and make it so, or is there some legal
>>procedure involved, such as submitting it to someone for approval? If
>>you know the _fact_ regarding this, please post, or reply to me.
>>
>>Brian
>>--
>>Synkronix Corp. | Brian Krahmer | SPx Corp.
>> President | chuckb@ll.net | Software Designer
>> http://www.geog.mankato.msus.edu/~chuck
>>
>
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Bryan Cort
bryanc@mpservices.com