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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:31:14 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> >I should add that in general in the US and most countries copyright notices
> >are unnecessary. I
> compare them to a "Private Property" sign on your front lawn: it would still
> be private property
> without the sign, but the sign warns your neighbors that you might be serious
> about it.
> >
> But beware of "adverse possession"!
> http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13100029
Difficult to imagine a claim of copyright via adverse possession.
> >Under current US copyright law and the Berne Convention, copyright inures to
> >the author of a creative
> work upon the moment s/he "fixes the work in a tangible medium" (including,
> by statute, computer
> memory). So if you think up a story and recite it for your friends you do not
> own a copyright, but as
> soon as you write the story down or key it into your computer you do, notice
> or no.
> >
> Are the airwaves a "tangible medium"?
I'm inclined to think not, vis. The storyteller speaking a story does not own
copyright until he commits the story to a "tangible medium". For this
consideration I'd expect the electromagnetic waves of a broadcast to be similar
to the sound waves of a speech.
> (I assume tape and disk are). If a performer broadcasts a
> performance, never having recorded it, may I record it off the air without
> violating copyright?
Who would know? Now, if you later attempt to enrich yourself by selling copies
of such a recording, you might encounter resistance.
-jc-
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