href=http://www.son.washington.edu/~brianp>brianp@u.washington.edu With all the discussion last week on copyrights, I thought that the members of this list might find the following information to be of some value. My apologies for not getting this out to y'all earlier.

Robert

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT COPYRIGHT by Terry Carroll

A series of six articles that contains frequently asked questions (FAQ) with answers relating to copyright law, particularly that of the United States.

This FAQ is available for anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.209], in , Copyright-FAQ files part1 - part6. If you do not have direct access by FTP, you can obtain a copy via email: send a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following lines in it:

   send usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ/part1
   send usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ/part2
   send usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ/part3
   send usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ/part4
   send usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ/part5
   send usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ/part6
   quit

FAQ ORGANIZATION

The following table indicates the contents of each of the parts of the FAQ. For each part, the last version in which that part was substantially updated (excluding the reorganization into six parts done as part of V1.1.0) is indicated in parentheses.

 
   Part 1 (V1.1.1) - Introduction (including full table of contents).
   Part 2 (V1.1.2) - Copyright basics.
   Part 3 (V1.0.0) - Common miscellaneous questions.
   Part 4 (V1.0.0) - International aspects.
   Part 5 (V1.0.2) - Further copyright resources.
   Part 6 (V1.0.0) - Appendix: A note about legal citation form,
                     or, "What's all this '17 U.S.C. 107' and '977
                     F.2d 1510' stuff?"

Revised 5/3/95
brianp@u.washington.edu (Brian Parkhurst)
University of Washington
Box 357260
Seattle, WA 98195-7260
206/543-9175