Re: SXMACLIB

"Joe Monk [email protected] [H390-MVS]" <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Sep 2019 17:51:07 -0500
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From the copyright office:

"Unpublished Works

"A copyright notice has never been required for unpublished works. The
Copyright Office will register an unpublished work that does not bear a
notice, regardless of whether the work was created before or after March 1,
1989."

As you will note, OS/VS2 MVS is an unpublished work. To get it in 1976, you
had to buy or rent a mainframe. IBM would not just give you the program for
free.

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf

Joe


On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:37 PM kerravon86-/[email protected] [H390-MVS] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > 1. In 1976, Congress altered copyright law from publication to creation..
> > 2. The 1976 alteration made the USA compliant with the Berne Convention
> in 1976.
>
> Only in that one respect of publication vs creation.
>
> The US didn't sign on to the rest of the Berne
> Convention until 1989.
>
> As far as I know, the change from whether a
> work needed a copyright notice only changed
> in 1989.
>
> BFN. Paul.
> 
>