Copyright

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Thu Oct 24 19:03:53 UTC 2002


Wendy Seltzer scripsit:

[admirable summary snipped]

> Unless an owner dedicates a work to the public domain, releasing all 
> exclusivity, 

One small point, not really relevant to the rest of your posting.  There
are people on this list who argue that you can't do that under the existing
copyright regime: once in copyright, always in copyright until expiration
(assuming we ever *have* a copyright expiration again, that is).

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