The GS WorldView staff gives 'The CSA2 Post of the Year Award' to:

Mike Westerfield, for having such a good attitude about sharing all of his
Usenet posts, his knowledge and his input with the entire Apple II community in
the following fashion:

...and all of this, and any other post I make in a public area, is, as far
as I am concerned, public domain. ;) -- Mike Westerfield - 9/26/99

Ahhhhhh !  IF only all within ur A2 community had such a good attitude
we could actually exist in unity and really get some productive thing
done.

See the post below:

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Subject: Re: Mecc titles
From: "Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com>
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:19:51 -0600
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In article <19990926201056.22515.00002677@ng-ck1.aol.com>, 
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:


> The copyright itself
> says to the government "if this software is discovered
> pirated, I want to enforce the copyright."


Agreed.  And I agree with the intent of the law.  But there are still some
interesting gray areas.  One is that, as stated by you, I just violated
copyright law.  (I think.)  Under current copyright law, pretty much any
original work, literally down to a scribble on a napkin, is copyrighted.
While I don't see the D.O.J. prosecuting for it, that would technically make
copying someone's post a copyright violation unless they explicitly released
it to the public domain.

There is an additional level of copyright protection that you get by
registering a copyright, but that actually serves to increase the penalties
and provide a record of ownership, not to establish the actual original
copyright.

It would be interesting to see what a copyright lawyer who has actually
studied the statute says about these gray areas.

Mike Westerfield

...and all of this, and any other post I make in a public area, is, as far
as I am concerned, public domain. ;)