[Air-l] Re: internet research and confidentiality

[Dan L Burk]

On 22 Dec 2004, elijah wright wrote:

> usenet postings have always (afaik) enjoyed such protection.  they're
just 
> like any other piece of content authored by an individual.  in the US, 
> author retains copyright by default, regardless of whether they file it
or 
> not.

Yes -- although the natural person may not always be considered the
"author."  And you can't enforce the copyright unless you register it. 
Neither of those rules would be true in most of the rest of the world.  DLB


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