Hi Michael,
    Just a quick addendum to your post...

    Anything written on or with the use of company owned equipment is the
property of the company.  Or somethign like that...

Art "Is it Friday yet??? hehehe " Bahrs

>>> "Michael D. Hensley" <[log in to unmask]> 09/12/97 08:28am >>>
Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Unfortunately, that's true only if and only if you put a copyright notice on
> the published document, from its very first publication onwards. And even
> then, it's not always obvious what part of the document is and is not
> copyrighted (the text, the artwork, the typography, the "style", etc.).

I find myself in the scary position of having to completely contradict
everything Wirt Atmar said in a post, so I'll start with a couple of
references:

   http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
   http://www.ssrn.com/cyberlaw/

Quote from the CyberLaw Lesson 3:

   You don't need to put a copyright notice on it.  Your work is copyrighted
   THE MOMENT IT'S WRITTEN DOWN. ... So the e-mail you send to a friend? It's
   copyrighted.

I highly recommend the CyberLaw "Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers".  One of the
authors is Eugene Volokh.

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