<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><br>
I think you're assigning too much weight to someone stating '© Gregory<br>
Pittman', since these days there are so many kinds of copyright, from<br>
'all rights reserved' to full liberality. One of the reasons people<br>
sometimes label something as copyrighted is so that someone else can't<br>
claim rights on it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>No, there really is only one kind of copyright, and in almost all countries it applies no matter if you state it or not (becuase of the Berne Convention).</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention</a></div></div><div><span><br></span>The copyright holder can of course allow the work to be shared freely, but the copyright holder can make that decision only because of the copyright. </div><div><br></div><div>If you don't hold the copyright, you have no right do decide what may be done or not with the work.</div><div><br></div><div>/Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>