From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:50:01 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remailers, Copyright, and Scientology
Message-ID: <199605220346.UAA17821@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 07:36 PM 5/21/96 -0500, Allen Ethridge wrote:
>Yes, the cult does have a legitimate interest in protecting their
>copyrights. 

I'm wondering whether they properly handled the copyright status of some of 
those (silly) texts.  While it is somewhat nice of you (in regards to them) 
to say what you did, it is  possible that they lost their copyrights decades 
ago by printing them (even internally) without the (then) appropriate 
"circle-C" copyright notice.  Chances are good that none of this material 
could survive a genuine copyright test case today. 



Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com