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From: ddl@husc6.HARVARD.EDU (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Improper usage of Copyright
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Date: Thu, 28-Aug-86 23:58:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 28 23:58:25 1986
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In article , sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) writes:
> 
> I've seen quite a bit of software posted by people obviously confused by
> copyright law.  They do not put a copyright notice on their software, and
> they include something like this:
> 
> 	This software is public domain.  You may not sell this for
> 	profit, etc.
> ...
> My question is, what is the status of such erroneous postings?  Are they
> actually copyrighted, or are they in the public domain?

	And what about something that begins "Public Domain Release"
but then "please respect... copyright notice...," e.g., recent TinyTcp
posting in mod.sources.  Particularly since a previous copy was posted
to net.sources without the "please respect..." part. (Though I assume
it had the actual copyright somewhere.)

					Dan Lanciani
					ddl@harvard.*