Neill Walker wrote:

| From: White Wolf <ranma@tendo-dojo.ranma.net>
| Date: June 8, 1996 3:11 AM

| > | From: AnimeFilm@aol.com
| > | To: fanfic@fanfic.com
| > | Subject: [FFML] [Announcement] Fan fiction submissions wanted!
| > | Date: June 6, 1996 7:29 PM
|
| I removed and blocked this address.  Personally, I have NO interest in
| releasing my work, because of copyright bullshit.

I don't know about the US, but here in Canada, any work, published or
not, is automatically copyrighted.  So if you ever find something you
wrote in a magazine or newspaper (or even if an individual plaigerized
your work) that was printed without permission, you can take the
publisher or individual to court!!  Pretty handy, if you ask me.
As I said, this goes only for Canada, so I'm sometimes pretty careless
about things I write, as it is supposedly protected under law.  Cool,
huh?

Yup!  Problem is, you'd still have to prove that you wrote it first!

In the US, commonlaw copyright does not exist anymore - the change in the
law is such that if you create a work it is NOT protected unless you:

A)  Register it with the proper fee and form with the copyright office in
the Library of Congress

or

B)  Publish the work in some manner.

Fortunately, posting the work to a ML like this is sufficient to constitute
publication under US copyright law.

Zen-


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