Re: [epub] UK/US Copyright Law

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From: "Siteria" <mail-in@siteria.net>

Are you people seriously trying to tell me that by posting myself the plans
to the worlds best invention I have therefore copyrighted it??
That sounds absolutely crazy to me....
If this was true, surely when you found a company to produce millions of
these things that the world cannot live without, and posted them the design
plans to make the thing, (recorded delivery of course) they would then own
the plans, and the copyright to your design, leaving you with nothing.

Ben

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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Green <flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com>
To: epub@onelist.com <epub@onelist.com>
Date: 28 November 1999 18:26
Subject: [epub] UK/US Copyright Law


>From: Doug Green <flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com>
>
>At 07:45 PM 11/27/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>>From: Cathy Stucker <cstucker@flash.net>
>
>>The old wives' tale of mailing the manuscript to yourself doesn't hold up.
>>Why not mail an unsealed envelope to yourself now, and keep it around in
>>case you later want to seal a manuscript in it to "prove" when it was
>>created?  You might at least have some proof if you got the postal clerk
to
>>handstamp the postmark all along the sealed edge, but don't rely on this
as
>>proof in a court of law.
>>
>Let me suggest a minor modification of the old wives tale (which I agree is
>useless). Send the letter to yourself via **registered** mail. This is used
>here in Canada for copyright material (mostly music) as the letter has to
>be properly sealed to be sent or Canada Post can not accept it. You can
>also use their own envelopes to seal your note inside their envelope and
>the double sealing with stamping is even more effective. The letter is also
>registered in Canada Post's public archives as having been sent on such and
>such a date. This system does hold up in a court of law. I can not speak to
>the U.S. postal system but I suspect much the same process will occur.
>
>Doug
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