Re: Credit in a GZG Publication

At 02:58 PM 9/26/96 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Rukesh Korde wrote:
>
>> Under American copyright laws, if a person writes something, she has
the 
>> copyright; i.e., there's no implied waiver of copyright (at least not
by 
>> subscribing to an email list).  Tuffley is correct to be worried
about the 
>> legal implications.
>
>Not really -- can you inagine trying to PROVE that you wrote an e-mail
>message?  
>
>Electronic mail is so incredibly easy to fake that there's no guarantee
>you wrote ANYTHING, unless you keep a separate copy on your local
>hard disk.

Yes, but the burden of proof is on you, not Jon, in a copyright case.
You
don't keep a copy (preferably notorized or witnessed, and there are a
whole
pack of witnesses on this group) then you're out of luck. 

Allan Goodall:	agoodall@sympatico.ca 
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