From:	"Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject:	Copyright, Easy answers and Hard quesitons
Date:	Tue, 6 Apr 93 04:44:49 CET

Tyger,
Good question and one easily answered by even a neophyte as myself. If you
write your adventures on a computer, then put a copy on a disk and mail it to
yourself. If you did it on paper then just send yourself a photocopy. Now
remember to NOT open the letter. You now have proof that you wrote that
adventure and when.
Now if some slimeball tries to sell your adventure, get a lawyer and slap him
with a nasty lawsuit.
Now here's something to think about. A while back Roberson said you cannot
copyright and idea. This might not be as simple as he said. I remember that a
year or two ago Eddie Murphy lost a major lawsuit to someone (was it Arc
Buckwald or someone like that) over the movie "Coming to America". This was
because a simple one paragraph movie idea the man filed with the movie company
told the basic plot to the movie. Even though someone else wrote the actually
screenplay, Murphy and the studio still had to pay several million dollars for
"stealing" the movie idea.

More things to ponder from,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker