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Re: Remailers, Copyright, and Scientology



On Tue, 21 May 1996, jim bell wrote:

> At 07:36 PM 5/21/96 -0500, Allen Ethridge wrote:
> >Yes, the cult does have a legitimate interest in protecting their
> >copyrights. 
> 
> I'm wondering whether they properly handled the copyright status of some of 
> those (silly) texts.  While it is somewhat nice of you (in regards to them) 
> to say what you did, it is  possible that they lost their copyrights decades 
> ago by printing them (even internally) without the (then) appropriate 
> "circle-C" copyright notice.  Chances are good that none of this material 
> could survive a genuine copyright test case today. 

Incorrect.

Please learn the "latter in time" rule and revisit the above question.

> 
> 
> 
> Jim Bell
> [email protected]
> 

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