Re: Copyright Law International

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From: Bill Imlah
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1992 16:17

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gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Wallace) writes:

>What does it mean to have a copyright on a anonymous work?  Who holds
>it?  What rights do they have?

There are precedents (outside the area of software copyright at least) : 
for anonymous texts in a linguistic corpus, the copyright resides with the
person who collects it. 

Bill Imlah

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