On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:06:58 GMT, Alex Chaihorsky wrote:

>> The copyright belongs to the person who writes the message,and that
>> applies to every message. The copyright to the entire collection of
>> messages (a "compilation copyright") would go to the person who put the
>> collection together; in this case, that is no one.
>>
>> dmh
>
> Sorry, re-read copyright laws. Unless accompanied by a copyright statement,
> nothing is copyrighted. And this is without even touching the subject of
> USENET quoting. If you are right, each and every one of us would be guilty
> by including the previous message(s) like this:
>
>>like this
>>like this

From: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#noc

NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT

The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U. S. law,
although it is often beneficial. Because prior law did contain such a
requirement, however, the use of notice is still relevant to the
copyright status of older works.

Notice was required under the 1976 Copyright Act. This requirement was
eliminated when the United States adhered to the Berne Convention,
effective March 1, 1989.


> Because copyright forbids duplication of the whole and any part of the
> material. So by including your message above mine like I did I am breaking
> copyright laws (if, according to you every individual message's copyright
> belong to an author?

No, it doesn't forbid it. It provides the originator with the right to
control the usage of that material. Nor is that control universal as
you seem to think.

By participating in a usenet discussion, you are giving implicit
approval for someone else to respond to your post and quote it. That
is the nature of a newsgroup.

--
Derek

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