Joe Smith wrote: > Before 1989 (in the US) lack of a copyright notice on an authorized publication could cause loss of copyright protection if the work was not registerd within 5 years, and all future versions be published with a correct notice. As the earliest known version has no copyright notice, was published in 1990 but with the implication that it had been previously published, and the fact that copyright registration of this work nearly trivial work is highly unlikely, there is a good chance that it is indeed in the public domain.
However, to verify this one would really want to find a *1988 or earlier* publication of the work by the author. A good thing to find. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
