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Old Thu Sep 06, 2012, 11:54pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman View Post
But that applies only to works protected by copyright. Merely slapping a copyright notice on public domain material doesn't copyright it.

There is some original writing in the Fed rule book that they can protect by their copyright. The actual rules themselves, no. It's like with that Red Circle Media example I gave; about the only thing their copyright protects on their 80 yr. old movies is the notice saying it's copyrighted by Red Circle Media!
Are you really arguing this? Seriously dude.

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