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Just to give Alice Cotten's horror a bit of perspective, I might say that
theses at Oxford are, and always have been, made public at the discretion of
the student. One acquaintance of mine has still (so far as I know) not made
his thesis available to anyone because it took him more than 20 years to turn
the thesis into a book. The book has been out some time now, but as of last
year the thesis was still "locked".
I realize that Americans have a different view of copyright and access, but it
is not the only one, and not even the most accepted one. When the U.S. signs
the Berne Copyright convention I shall listen with more sympathy.
Diana Patterson
DPatterson@MtRoyal.AB.CA
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The United States has signed the Berne Copyright Convention.