Interesting point. Either the extra language is merely an attempt to summarize the news agency's views of what copyright means (it sounds like the copyright announcement made during the telecast of sports games), or it's an attempt to go beyond copyright with language that you'd typically find in a subscription agreement -- but no contract has been formed. Either way, I'd say it has no true legal effect, in and of itself, in defining the agency's rights, but it probably made their lawyers feel good when the client started to use it.
Kerry L. Konrad
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Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 17:11:05 GMT
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