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"Yes it does. Those were the rules prior to the
US becoming a signatory to the Berne
Convention, which only happened in 1989."
Nope. The copyright act of 1974 displaced the copyright law of 1909, and it
flipped the requirement to attach copyright explicitly....
"The wording of section 102 is significant mainly because it effectuated a
major change in the mode of United States copyright protection. Under the
last major statutory revision to U.S. copyright law, the Copyright Act of
1909, federal statutory copyright protection attached to original works
only when those works were 1) published and 2) had a notice of copyright
affixed. State copyright law governed protection for unpublished works
before the adoption of the 1976 Act, but published works, whether
containing a notice of copyright or not, were governed exclusively by
federal law. If no notice of copyright was affixed to a work and the work
was, in fact, "published" in a legal sense, the 1909 Act provided no
copyright protection and the work became part of the public domain
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain>. Under the 1976 Act, however,
section 102 says that copyright protection extends to original works that
are *fixed* in a tangible medium of expression. Thus, the 1976 Act
broadened the scope of federal statutory copyright protection from
"published" works to works that are "fixed".
Joe
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 11:33 PM kerravon86-/[email protected] [H390-MVS] <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> ---In [email protected], <shelby.beach@...> wrote :
>
> > Agreed ! They (IBM) don't have a whole lot of
> > legal protections, but that doesn't, by default,
> > make it public domain.
>
> Yes it does. Those were the rules prior to the
> US becoming a signatory to the Berne
> Convention, which only happened in 1989.
>
> If you published something without a copyright
> notice, it was public domain.
>
> Post-Berne it is by default copyright and you
> instead need an explicit "release to the
> public domain" notice. MVS 3.8J was
> published before 1989 so IBM have given
> up all rights to the product. They can only
> copyright any changes they make to it,
> like the z/OS changes.
>
> BFN. Paul.
>
>
> https://copyright-australia.com/176-Countries-Berne-Convention.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkb6l1MTy5AIVwo-PCh0LUQ5HEAAYASAAEgLTOfD_BwE
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