From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 7 15:42:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D4716A4DB for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 15:42:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from trans-warp.net (hyperion.trans-warp.net [216.37.208.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BD143D97 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 15:42:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unverified [65.193.73.208]) by trans-warp.net (SurgeMail 2.2g3) with ESMTP id 6810667 for multiple; Sat, 07 May 2005 11:39:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <427C0876.4080506@makeworld.com> References: <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050506140118.GB77760@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <342912884.20050506204440@wanadoo.fr> <427BC142.2030702@cloudview.com> <20050507000645.GA10731@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <427C0876.4080506@makeworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3906ba2a4606831ca7d62d03f573447c@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 11:42:19 -0400 To: racerx@makeworld.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com X-Authenticated-User: bsilver@chrononomicon.com cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 15:42:36 -0000 On May 6, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Chris wrote: > Hahaha - good stuff! Yanno, last I knew (and that was some time ago) > You > had to submit writings for review to the copyright folks here in the > U.S. > > Then, if they deem it so, you then had to pay a fee to have it > copyrighted. As I said - this may or may not be the case any longer, I > didn't know that just by writing something, you were grandted all the > nifty perks of it being copywritten. Then again - I'm not a lawyer. And > to be frank, I couldn't care less either. No, when you write something, it's copyrighted automatically. There are steps you can take to help make your case stronger if you think someone will steal your work (mailing yourself a sealed copy so it'll be dated by the post office, for example), but if you write it and it's your work you have the copyright on it automatically.