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Subject:Freelancers: Copyright your work From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:20:49 -0400
This may be interesting to anyone in this group who does any freelance
writing.
In a decision that could have wide ranging implications, a NY Court
denied copyright protection to an author whose work was admittedly
plagiarized, on the grounds that she did not file for copyright
protection.