RE: [spoon-discuss] Force vs. Source

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> >> > >You should've copyrighted it when you had the chance! ;)
> >> >
> >> > E did. Anything you write is copyrighted instantly.
> >>
> >>Well, he should have licenced it properly. Anyway, it was a joke on the
> >>whole
> >>'Source' thing. I never read the books, though.
>
> >-It's not copyright unless you declare it to be so. Otherwise it's public
> >domain, although you don't have to publish to make it copyrighted.-
>
> A common misconception. Used to be that you had to put a copyright notice 
> on
> something for it to be copyrighted, but that's obsolete these days. All it
> means to have a notice is that people can't claim not to have known the 
> work
> was copyrighted. I'm actually writing a paper for my US History course on
> how copyright law has changed in the twentieth century, and have only
> discovered this rule as part of that. You now have to officially announce
> that you surrender your copyright if you don't want to own your words. 
> Since
> reading this, the only artistic work I've submitted to anything for
> publication has had a notice that it was being surrendered to the Public
> Domain.
-So any rules you write are copyrighted... so if anyone tries to amend a 
rule you wrote and you don't like the change, sue 'em!

Wait, let me try that again with my "I'M NOT SERIOUS" hat on, just to be 
safe...-

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