telling someone about it... just like posting a picture... does not constitute placing something into the public domain...
someone already alluded to this above...
that's where you are making your first mistake...
your second mistake has to do with your assertion that there needs to be some formal 'protection' put inplace before i could post a picture... or for that matter, play a song i wrote, or display a pinting i painted...
by the very act of creating it it becomes your work of art...
now of course i could claim that i did it... i could claim that i wrote DOOM3... but in a court of law, i'd loose... because the original developers can show that this is their original work...
even if they didn't have any copyrights posted...
do yo see any copyrights on any of Van Goghs paintings...
--Mike
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