To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave
From: "Sally C. Hand" <sallyhand at excite.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:22:22 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

As a law librarian by training, Jim has it correct. I have copyright even if i don't declare it or register it upon the production of the document.  Copyright is assumed unless it permission is granted.

Sally C. Hand
Gentlewoman now of North Carolina

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

Monday, October 18, 2004, 11:07:52 PM, WSFA members wrote:<br><br>> No author wishes his work in the public domain.  To be copyrighted, a work<br>> must have a declaration of copyright ("copyright 20-- [name]")<br><br>No, it doesn't. According to the US Copyright Office: "Copyright is secured automatically when the work is<br>created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time." A declaration<br>of copyright certainly is not required.<br><br>> , and it used to be required that copies be registered with the copyright office, but for now the<br>> declaration alone is sufficient.   Republication without including the prior copyright notice is a violation<br>> of that copyright.<br><br>I don't see how. See above.<br><br>-- <br>Jim Kling<br>science writer<br>Rockville, MD<br>http://nasw.org/users/jkling<br><br>

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