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    08-Oct-86 11:48:00
Sb: #35672-CompuS Copyright
Fm: Dan Moore 74035,243
To: Dave Haynie/C128 Land 76703,2047

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It's 5 years. But the hard part is that you are "supposed" to make a "reasonable effort" to place the copyright notice in all existing copies. Not a very realistic goal, especially for a program that is on BBS's. (Now I'd love to have a lawyer tell me what "reasonable effort" means. Does that mean just the one place I uploaded it to? Or does it mean every BBS I know of? Or every BBS that has it? Or what?) Isn't copyright law fun! Dan