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  Copyright considerations for electronic publications.
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THE FOLLOWING IS GIVEN WITHOUT WARRANTY OR LIABILITY. ABSOLUTELY
NO POSITION IS TAKEN HEREIN AS TO THE LEGALITIES OF COPYRIGHT OR
THE TECHNICALITIES OF COPYRIGHT NOTICE. THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO
FOLLOW THE SUGGESTIONS CONTAINED HEREIN DO SO AT THEIR OWN RISK.
AS WITH ALL LEGAL MATTERS, CONSULTATION WITH YOUR OWN ATTORNEY
IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
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UNOFFICIAL Copyright Primer
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Under U.S. law, a "Copyright is secured automatically when the
work is created. Publication is no longer the key to statutory
copyright as it was under earlier Copyright Laws." For our purposes,
the work is "created" and copyrighted when you first save to disk.

To learn more about Copyright issues, call the Copyright Office
Hotline, 202 707-9100, and request Circular #1, "Copyright
Basics". For a complete list of other circulars, request Circular
#2, "Publications on Copyright". Circular #92 for, "Copyright Law
of the United States of America" provides a detailed listing of
laws concerning copyright, recommended for E-publishers.

For information about obtaining a Library of Congress Card
Number, contact the CIP Division, Library of Congress,
Washington DC 20540.

For information on International Standard Book Numbering
(ISBN), write to ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker Company, 205 East
42nd St, New York NY 10071.

For information on International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN),
write to: Library of Congress, National Serials Data Program,
Washington DC 20540.

Some Informal Suggestions
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Many electronic authors are (understandably) concerned about copyright
and infringement. Along these lines, we suggest that you not only
include a copyright notice in the text of your publication, but a
copyright file with your distribution set.

(The notice can be in your README.TXT, and an extra file is eliminated)

Many authors are naming these files (C)1993.TXT. Texts first published
in other years should use the year of creation.
The contents of the file are often as follows:

 TITLE
   by Johnny B. Gudwriter

 Copyright  1994  Johnny B. Gudwriter
 (notice)  (year) (first name MI last name)

 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce the
 enclosed publication, or portions therefrom, in any form.

 [when appropriate]

 A limited non-exclusive license is granted to shareware
 distributors to copy the enclosed file system in its entirety
 and to charge a nominal fee for providing complete copies
 thereof to potential shareware consumers.

 [when appropriate]

 This is a work of fiction. All the characters portrayed in the
 enclosed text are fictious, and any resemblence to real people
 or events is purely coincidental.

Some titles are shareware and others are not, many authors
now include a LICENSED.TXT file with the ones that are not,
as follows:

 IMPORTANT NOTICE

 This is a LICENSED publication. Unauthorized duplication is
 prohibited.

 If you acquired this publication from a bulletin board or disk
 vendor, you are in possession of stolen property.

 This publication is sold directly to the consumer by the
 publisher or author. If you are in possesion of an unauthorized
 copy, you should contact the publisher or author to purchase a
 legal copy of this publication.

Many distributors, including the Electronic Publishing Network,
will automatically reject any file system that contains a
LICENSED.TXT file.

Finally, the truly cautious sometimes stamp each individual
distribution set with the name and address of the purchaser in
a LICENSEE.TXT file:

 This copy of TITLE belongs to

  NAME
  STREET
  CITY ST ZIP

 Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
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