Copyright notice: this is my .sig
From Diane Wenner <pix...@netcom.com>
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· 29 May 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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I am no ascii artist; I have been trying since 1989 to come up with an individualistic .sig. I finally came up with one and some variations that I like. This is public notice that this is my .sig and that I created it entirely by myself on May 28, 1996. I include the sorts of variations that I intend to use. It is not my intent to lay claim to the whole idea of using a female face instead of a male or an animal. _______________________________________________________________________ ! ! ! Diane Wenner Silicon Valley ! ! <pix...@netcom.com> California USA .,,,. ! ! ((?~~~?)) ! ! Experience is what you get when you're ))(@ @()) ! ! looking for something else. (() ^ ((( ! !______________________________________________________...._\~/_....___! _______________________________________________________________________ ! .,,,. ! ! Diane Wenner Silicon Valley (?~~~?) ! ! <pix...@netcom.com> California USA ))(@ @()) ! ! (() ^ ((( ! !______________________________________________________,,,,_\~/_,,,,___! _______________________________________________________________________ ! .,,,. ! ! Diane Wenner Silicon Valley (%~~~%) ! ! <pix...@netcom.com> California USA ))(@ @()) ! ! (() ^ ((( ! !______________________________________________________...._\~/_....___! _______________________________________________________________________ ! .,,,. ! ! Diane Wenner Silicon Valley ($~~~$) ! ! <pix...@netcom.com> California USA ))(@ @()) ! ! (() ^ ((( ! !______________________________________________________,,,,_\~/_,,,,___! _______________________________________________________________________ ! .,,,. ! ! Diane Wenner Silicon Valley (#~~~#) ! ! <pix...@netcom.com> California USA ))(@ @()) ! ! (() ^ ((( ! !__________Hanging on by my fingernails________________,,,,_\~/_,,,,___! _______________________________________________________________________ ! ! ! Diane Wenner Silicon Valley ! ! <pix...@netcom.com> California USA ! ! (())))) ! ! The same rain that waters the optomist's ))(@ @()) ! ! corn makes the pessimist's weeds grow. (() ^ ((( ! !______________________________________________________,,,,_\~/_,,,,___! I'm afraid I sound bitchy and not exactly sharing in the "ascii art tradition". I wish I didn't; I also wish I had an ascii idea that I was happy with more often than once in 7 years! _______________________________________________________________________ ! .,,,. ! ! Diane Wenner Silicon Valley ((?~~~?)) ! ! <pix...@netcom.com> California USA ))(@ @()) ! ! My .sig; swipe it, and I'll be distorted! (() ^ ((( ! !______________________________________________________...._\~/_....___! The above was posted in view of the advice given in the following post from this ascii newsgroup: Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: (fwd) Re: On "borrowing" other pple's sigs Path: -mail From: smo...@azstarnet.com (Coder) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: On "borrowing" other pple's sigs Date: 28 May 1996 17:29:18 GMT Organization: Arizona Daily Star - AZSTARNET Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: web.azstarnet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Daniel Au (dca...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) wrote: : I now hereby give Jasmine (and Jasmine alone) permission to use this sig, as : long as a small [dcau] is included, and I extend apologies to her for using : her in this article in order to inform other readers of this newsgroup. : Imitation is a form of flattery (or so they say) and I'm am honored you : liked my sig enough to use it :) The unfortunate thing about what you are attempting to do is that it is a day late and a dollar short. However, ackording to the Berne convention, you do not need to put any type of copyright notice in your original work to lay claim to it. It is recommended that you do put a copyright notice on any original works if you ever want to pursue any violations in a court of law, because those that don't fail miserably at a high rate. Anyone using your .sig could do so freely as long as they put a copyright notice as a "derivative work" or make claim that it is such in some fashion, still of course giving you credit in the original fashion. I do agree that folks who put effort into creating any type of publicly available work, program, code, or art should be givin credit by those utilizing such for whatever reasons. Be good, -MM
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4c137dfd6ca5951 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: pix...@netcom.com (Diane Wenner) Subject: Copyright notice: this is my .sig Date: 1996/05/29 Message-ID: <pix...@netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 157334732 sender: pix...@netcom6.netcom.com references: <319...@anon.penet.fi> <4ns7pn$ij...@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <31A...@mail.idt.net> organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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