BG>> If you live in a coutry signed up to the berne convention, it's
 BG>> automatic. Just as this message is automatically copyrighted to me the
 BG>> moment I typed it. 
 DG> You have to specify that you use your copyright.. otherwise the
 DG> material will be public..
Just checked with some English/Welsh law books. Copyright is automatic.  
Notices are merely assertions.
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