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From: phillips@dowco.com (Daniel Phillips)
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR HELP ON A GAME (how to copyright?)
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stewart@peganet.com says...
>
>Daniel Phillips wrote:
>> 
>> matiskel@aa.washington.edu says...
>> >
>> >On 27 Sep 1996, Troy M. Gilbert wrote:
>> >
>> >To get a meaningful copyright you have to register with the
>> >government. When you create any work you automatically are
>> >assigned the copyright but to sue and get damages you need to
>> >register.
>> 
>> Not so.  To sue and get damages, all you have to do is be the
>> author.  It's the best protection.
>> 
>When you create a work and mark it as Copyright you are then 
>copyrighted with the full protection of the law.  Registereing 
>your copyright serves one, and only one, purpose.  It proves the 
>date of copyright.  If you give away so much as one copy to 
>anyone without a copyright mark, then it is public domain.

Nonsense.  Check out:

  http://www.clari.net/brad/copymyths.html

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Daniel Phillips
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