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Re: [dvd-discuss] Bunner wins DeCSS trade secret appeal
- To: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Bunner wins DeCSS trade secret appeal
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger(at)samsara.law.cwru.edu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 21:02:40 -0500
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:00:26 EST." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111051658090.549-100000@sparcy.internal.lan>
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Noah silva writes:
:
:
: On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
:
: As soon as you publish
: something with no copyright notice, it loses any copyright status.
That statement is false. Copyright notices are not required under
the 1976 Copyright Act. A work is protected by copyright as soon as it
is written down---``fixed''---in a tangible medium of expression and
it remains copyrighted after publication.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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