Re: [Epic] Playing Too Much

From: <anvil_at_...>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:09:55 -0500

Carl Woodrow wrote:
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> Thane,
> It's just a thought, but it's something that a few people do in the UK that has helped discourage potential 'intellectual copyright' thieves. Print out the rules and concepts and seal them in an envelope. Address the envelope to yourself and mail it. The package will return with (hopefully) a clearly marked date and postage franking stamp on it. As long as the package is not opened or tampered with it presents a strong case for who thought of what first. I don't believe it would be admis
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> Another possibility is to produce a brief synopsis with enough detail to clearly identify your work, but not enough to be of use to anyone, and then email it to a few people. As long as the email is not deleted it will retain the date marker of transmission. Again this proves nothing but at least you may find a few people that are then willing to say you sent it to them on such and auch a date. Faxes work well for that due to the Fax receipt slip produced by the poling machine. In fact in the UK
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> Just a few ramblings...hope they help whilst you wait for the copyright to go through.
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> Carl
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I have actually used this method to copyright music here in the US so it
is legal

anvil
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