joe@vixen.uucp (Joe Hitchens) (02/22/88)
In article <22977@brunix.UUCP> cs224065@brap0a94.UUCP (Nicholas Thompson) writes: >Don't bet on it...as I recall from the booklet on corporate security >they gave me when I first went to work, the only ABSOLUTE way to >secure the copyright on the document is with the symbol-which-is- >usually-approximated-by-(c). You know, the small letter c with the >circle around it. The c with parentheses doesn't cut it, neither >does "Copyright (c) 1988 by Nick Thompson. All Rights Reserved." >Of course it doesn't hurt to put that in, and it will certainly >give you some protection, but apparently the letter of the law says >that you need the little symbol that isn't in the ASCII character >set. So how do you protect your source code? Well, all the stuff >mentioned above counts for something, I hope... > I sent for copyright info booklets from the government 1 or maybe 2 years ago. It said thus: Copyright 1988 Joe Hitchens All Rights Reserved (is correct) Copr. 1988 Joe Hitchens All Rights Reserved (is correct) (c) 1988 Joe Hitchens All Rights Reserved (where the "(c)" is actually a small c in a circle is correct) (c) 1988 Joe Hitchens All Rights Reserved (where the "(c)" is a c in 2 parenthesis is NOT correct) In my case, I have always gone with the: Copyright 1988 Joe Hitchens All Rights Reserved It seems the most official looking. NOTE: Despite all the visible copyright messages in this text, I would like to make it clear that this text is actually NOT copyrighted but, but rather just a discussion of copyrighting practices. (In case anyone has a weak heart.) :-) It is actually in the Public Domain. j.h.
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (02/25/88)
In article <188@vixen.uucp> joe@vixen.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) writes: > [ .... ] >I sent for copyright info booklets from the government 1 or maybe 2 years ago. >It said thus: > ... > Copyright 1988 Joe Hitchens All Rights Reserved (is correct) > ... The lack of punctuation leads to some interesting possibilities ( smile ). Imagine that the Not family named their son Thomas Thompson Not, and later Tom Not became an author of Computer software. His copywrite line would look like this: Copyright 1988 Joe Thompson Not All Rights Reserved Why not have a "comma" or a "." in there somewhere? -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu ljdickey@watdcs.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ...!uunet!water!ljdickey