RE: Two questions about Copyright notices

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Authors frequently submit their work for publication with a copyright
notice. Sometimes it never gets published. How could it be against the
law to claim a copyright before the work has been published?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robart, Kay
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:45 PM
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Two questions about Copyright notices
> 
> The changes between years have to be significant to claim a 
> new copyright date, not just a few punctuation marks, and it 
> is against the law to claim a copyright before the document 
> has been published...
> 


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