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From pmoloney@unix1.tcd.ie (Paul Michael Moloney): 

> [...] copyright exists on something you've written the moment you
> write it. So keeping files of writing from a user is in effect
> illegal.

As I understand it, copyright refers to intellectual property, not
physical property.  Ie, someone can't publish your work without your
permission, or claim that they wrote it themselves.

Suppose Alice is a famous author, and writes many letters to her
friend Betty.  A Publisher must get Alice's permission to publish the
letters, since they are her work and she has the copyright.  But if a
museum wants to display the letters, they must get them from Betty,
not Alice; Betty owns the physical letters themselves.


I am posting as an individual, not as a representative of U. of P.
I am not a lawyer, this is my personal understanding of the law.

Charles H. Buchholtz       Systems Programmer     chip@seas.upenn.edu
	      School of Engineering and Applied Science
		      University of Pennsylvania