Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
on 9/10/03 10:24 PM, Rick at giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
Is Stevevertigo correct that, because the page doesn't specifically have a copyright on it, it's fair game to be stolen and incorporated onto Wikipedia? I can't believe that.
You should not believe that. Everything is copyright by its author, if no one else, notice or no notice, unless it has been released into the public domain either by the passage of time, some specific license to use it or simply a declaration that people are "free to use it" as one sometimes sees.
U.S. copyright law has dispensed with the notice provision since joining the Berne Convention in 1988.
Stephen Carlson
-- Stephen C. Carlson, mailto:scarlson@mindspring.com "Poetry speaks of aspirations, and songs chant the words." Shujing 2.35