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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers,net.legal
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams, A new book?
Message-ID: <1239@cca.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 14:49:25 EST
Article-I.D.: cca.1239
Posted: Sat Jan  5 14:49:25 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 02:14:19 EST
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Reply-To: dee@cca-unix.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Organization: Computer Corp America, Cambridge
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Summary: 


Under the new US Copyright law, a copyright notice is not defective if
it gives a year one year in the future from the actual year of
publication.  However, the term of the copyright runs from the actual
year of publication.  There is also no problem if the year is correct or
is earlier than the actual year of publication.  If the year given is
more than one year after the actual year of publication, it is as if no
notice were put on the book.  However, there are number of circumstances
under which omission of notice is not fatal so you still can't tell if
its completely in the public domain.

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	+	Donald E. Eastlake, III
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