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Old January 15th, 2002
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Originally posted by MtDewJunkE
Because there is no copyright notice posted on shared songs I should not be help responsible. There is nothing notifying me of the copyright so I assume that they aren’t copyrighted. The original rippers from the CD with a copyright notice should be the ones ultimately responsible for the subsequent sharing of the files.
That statement is absolutely false of course. As soon someone "authors" something, it is copyrighted by the author, regardless of any notification of such. That's the law.

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