ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) (12/03/84)
Just speaking personally, I find it obnoxious when a compiler prints out
a copyright notice for the compiler's vendor at the top of a listing of
my program. The message literally claims that the vendor has a copyright
on my source, which is utter falsehood.
To put a copyright message in an object module, there still can be a string
constant in the source. If the compiler tries to optimize out an unused string
constant, then assign it to some external variable and then call an external
function that no-ops. I am not qualified to say whether the presence of such
a message legally copyrights the object module, but the message will be there.
Next question: when my source is translated by a vendor's compiler to my
object, who holds the copyright on the object?
Related question: when my novel is translated by some one (with my permission
or maybe even at my request), who holds the copyright on the novel in the
other language?
-- Norman Diamond
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"Opinions are those of the keyboard, and do not reflect on me or higher-ups."jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) (02/08/85)
[Aren't you hungry...?] Would someone be kind enough to mail me an answer to the folowing question? I have noted someone suggesting that you should just drop a copyright notice in the top of your source code to give it protection under the copyright laws. Is this so? I had been under the impression that copyrighting involved more than that. What is involved in copyrighting material, and where should I go to look for information. I don't read net.legal anymore, as most of it is over my head, so mail responses would be appreciated to ..!allegra!sjuvax!jss. Thank you...