On Tuesday, November 21, 2000, Bennie White <[email protected]> wrote: > (I have a cemetery inscription compilation at the printers as we speak- > copyrighted, I might add). That's very different. You put that together yourself, so you deserve a copyright on it and protection for it. > I do know this is in the current copyright law (may not be exact wording): > Any original work (compilation or otherwise) created by the author becomes > protected by copyright from the moment it is created. In fact, under the > current law, the copyright notice is not even required to be shown. Getting > down to the nitty gritty, these messages we on the list are compiling > (original work) are covered under copyright and we all have violated the law > y quoting passages. Extreme example, I know, but nevertheless, covered > under the law. The quoting falls under fair use, so no copyright violation. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson [email protected]