Re: [IRCA] Copyright

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russ,

I think we may be loosing our hisslessness here.

While all you have said is undoubtedly correct and far more eloquently 
expressed, I think I covered it when I said, "...once the lawyers 
descended." ;-)

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) FL


At 07:18 AM 2/2/2006, you wrote:


>--- "W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >  From what I was told, if it's recorded -- whatever the media -- it's
> >
> > copyrighted.  In the event of challenge who thought,  said, wrote, or
> > did
> > it first; then proof becomes the issue, hence, registration of the
> > copyright.
> >
> >
>
>*** As I noted in my prior post, the former really doesn't provide any
>legal protection.
>
>Further, one needs to distinguish between something which is actually
>published / recorded with the intent of other than merely private
>distribution versus 'commercial' writings or recordings. With the
>latter, there is an implied copyright with publication and recording
>via some vehicle available for public distribution on some scale.
>
>Publication or recording is still somewhat murky as there's not yet a
>lot of precedent for use of a lot of internet/computer media by private
>individuals or groups.
>
>Russ Edmunds
>Blue Bell, PA  ( 360' ASL )
>[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
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