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echo: public_domain
to: Paul Edwards
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1995-06-11 11:15:26
subject: Re: Copying: Legal vs. Et

BL> USA only applies in the USA. Australia does not even have the
 BL> concept of felony in law.

 PE> Well most people are signed up to the Berne convention, and if
 PE> you FREQ BERNE10.ZIP you will get that. I haven't read it
 PE> myself.

  I have read a summary.

  Its main thrust is that copyright on intellectual property merely
has to be asserted. This makes it pretty-well automatic. It says
nothing about penalties or felonies. How could it, when every country
has different criminal and civil statutes?

Regards,
Bob
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