Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00028)

John:
> The issue of "is the matter published" becomes somewhat of a moot point
the
> moment that copies of the material are made and distributed. As long as
the
> author has not made one copy of his material, he cannot copyright it. For
> example, you cannot copyright your diary, because you have not published
it.

This is very complicated.  However I do know that a single copy of a MS can
be copyrighted, because it was done for one MS I know of.  So distribution
or publication is not needed; in that example anyway.

Nicholas


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