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Subject:Freelancers: Copyright your work From:Michael Andrew Uhl <uhl -dot- mike -at- epamail -dot- epa -dot- gov> To:"TECHWR-L, (Tech Writers)" <TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:38:44 -0400
I read this article and I find the court's logic lacking and its
reasoning quite tortuous. How is that the magazine is copyrighted but
not its contents? And, even given the court's refusal to give protection
to the author, doesn't the magazine publisher deserve a remedy?
I hope I'm missing something really simple here.
-Mike
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Michael Andrew Uhl (mailto:uhl -dot- mike -at- epa -dot- gov)
Lockheed Martin - U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center
Ph. (office) 919.541.4283; 919.541.3716 (lab)
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Peter wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/A21143-2000Apr13.html
>
> --
> Peter
