Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:10:01 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Monday, October 18, 2004, 11:07:52 PM, WSFA members wrote:

> No author wishes his work in the public domain.  To be copyrighted, a work
> must have a declaration of copyright ("copyright 20-- [name]")

No, it doesn't. According to the US Copyright Office: "Copyright is secured automatically when the work is
created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time." A declaration
of copyright certainly is not required.

> , and it used to be required that copies be registered with the copyright office, but for now the
> declaration alone is sufficient.   Republication without including the prior copyright notice is a violation
> of that copyright.

I don't see how. See above.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling