Patty,

I am currently taking a course in Web Publishing and we
were just going over cypright. Here are some of the
sites that my teacher reccomended reading:

Web Law FAQ
        http://www.patents.com/Weblaw.sht
What constitutes a satisfactory copyright notice?
        http://www.patents.com/copyrigh.htm#notice
Cancopy: What is copyright?
        http://www.cancopy.com/copyright/index.html
CIPO-OPIC : Canadian Intellectual Property Office
        http://opic.gc.ca/

Very interesting stuff. Copyright is a very disputed
subject now that the Internet has grown and everybody
seems to be creating sites and copying from everybody
else.

I hope the sites are of use to you, they were an
eye-opener to me.

Peter Egerton



At 11:04 PM 11/25/00 +1100, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I have just read the material at the link that Andrew Rindsberg posted a
>week or so back at:
>http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/~paleo/author's_manual.html#app3, in which it
>says that permission to reproduce (part of) a work need not be asked if
>published before 1906. I would like to know if anyone has an idea if this
>generally applies worldwide, and where I might be able to find more
>information on this.
>
>The reason I am asking is that I am about to acquire some originals and
>reproductions of 'real old' conchological literature, which I would love to
>put on CDROM and make available to the shell world. All of these are things
>published mid to late 19th century so well before this 1906 date, and the
>publishing companies no longer exist and i would expect copyright, if it
>ever existed, to have expired long ago. Am I right in this assumption? Does
>anyone know more than I do?
>
>Patty
>
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>
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>
>
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>Lindfield NSW 2070
>Australia
>
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>
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>
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