1997-10-25 - “who owns these words?”

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From: Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= <3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: d9cbac01053a87f9e31263ec3a4db1163637c922d994fb4ad145856dae419291
Message ID: <19971025170136.01289@ulf.dialup.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply To: <633f314d1dcc4c2315d89ebedf6e75ab@anon.efga.org>
UTC Datetime: 1997-10-25 22:00:03 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 06:00:03 +0800

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From: Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= <3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 06:00:03 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: "who owns these words?"
In-Reply-To: <633f314d1dcc4c2315d89ebedf6e75ab@anon.efga.org>
Message-ID: <19971025170136.01289@ulf.dialup.uni-hamburg.de>
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On Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 03:36:35AM -0400, Anonymous wrote:

> I don't think you know who I am, but I wrote this message.
> 
> These are "my" words, but "I" am anonymous.
> 
> So I am wondering - who owns these words?
> Who owns the words of an anonymous author,

According to copyright law, the anonymous author, with the exception
that the copyright expires 70 years after publication rather than 70
years after the author's death.

> who is responsible for the actions of an unknown party,
> and who is to say that this is so?






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