on 9/10/03 10:24 PM, Rick at giantsrick13(a)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
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