ccastje@pyr.gatech.EDU (John Adair) (10/03/89)
Does anyone know the method for copyrighting software? Is each revision
a seperate copyright?
Also, does anyone have the address for the Association of Shareware
Professionals (I think) ?
John Adair
Georgia Institute of Technology, Box 30812, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ccastje
ARPA: ccastje%prism@gatech.edumadd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) (10/04/89)
In article <9263@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccastje@pyr.gatech.EDU (John Adair) writes: |Does anyone know the method for copyrighting software? Is each revision |a seperate copyright? Merely by sticking the message: Copyright 1989 Yourname on the program, it is copyrighted. You earn treble damages if you register the copyright (using Form TX, obtainable from the Library of Congress but I don't have the address handy). Registration costs $10. Subsequent versions of software should be re-copyrighted to guarantee protection, but there are some weirdnesses covering derived works which may actually give you some coverage. I'd copyright each revision specifically if I were worried about it. A couple of caveats: (c) is not equivalent to c-in-a-circle; if you can't reproduce c-in-a-circle, you *must* use the word "copyright" or the notice is invalid. Thus: "(c) 1989 Yourname" is invalid "Copyright 1989 Yourname" is valid. "Copyright (c) 1989 Yourname" is valid. I usually use the latter although the (c) is meaningless. Another common thing to do is "Copyright 1989 by Yourname" which is also valid, although I'd limit the number of extraneous symbols or words that I put in my notice. Happy hacking, jim frost madd@std.com
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (10/04/89)
From article <39426@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost): $ In article <9263@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccastje@pyr.gatech.EDU (John Adair) writes: $ |Does anyone know the method for copyrighting software? Is each revision $ |a seperate copyright? $ $ Merely by sticking the message: $ $ Copyright 1989 Yourname $ $ on the program, it is copyrighted. You earn treble damages if you $ register the copyright (using Form TX, obtainable from the Library of $ Congress but I don't have the address handy). Registration costs $10. Most commercial software has a Copyright message as a string in the program so that it shows up in the object code. j |%|John Lawitzke, Dale Computer Corp., R&D |%|UUCP: uunet!frith!dale1!jhl Work |%| uunet!frith!dale1!ipecac!jhl Home Inquiring minds just wondering. |%|Internet: jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu
nebakke@ndsuvax.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) (10/06/89)
As stated in another article (sorry didn't copy to include here) you can copywrite your material by simply inserting: (c) 1989 Your name, or other variations, Note: This is legal in the U.S. but possibly not in other countries, some countries do not recognize the (c) and so you must write the word Copywrite. Also, some countries require a the "All rights reserved" inclusion so the best way to insert a copywrite notice is: (c) Copywrite 1989 Yourname, All rights reserved. To insure that it is acknowledged by countries other than the U.S. Jeff Bakke nebakke@plains.NoDak.edu nu113738@ndsuvm1.Bitnet
new@udel.edu (Darren New) (10/06/89)
In article <2989@ndsuvax.UUCP> nebakke@ndsuvax.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) writes: >(c) Copywrite 1989 Yourname, All rights reserved. ^^^^^^^^^ You're going to take advice from a man who can't even spell the word??? Other than the fact that the rest of the article is right, this is all wrong! (1/2 :-). That's "copyright", as in the right to copy... -- Darren
kohli@gemed (~Software~Surfer~) (10/06/89)
On: Thu Oct 5 10:24:24 1989, nebakke@ndsuvax.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) posts:
~As stated in another article (sorry didn't copy to include
~here) you can copywrite your material by simply inserting:
~ ^^^^^
~ (c) 1989 Your name, or other variations,
~
~Note: This is legal in the U.S. but possibly not in other
~countries, some countries do not recognize the (c) and so you
~must write the word Copywrite. Also, some countries require a
~ ^^^^^
~the "All rights reserved" inclusion so the best way to insert a
~copywrite notice is:
~ ^^^^^
~
~(c) Copywrite 1989 Yourname, All rights reserved.
~ ^^^^^
~
~To insure that it is acknowledged by countries other than the
~U.S.
~
Be sure to spell it right when you write it down.
The copyright is your right to copy, and nobody
else's. strcmp("copywrite","copyright") <> 0
Jim Kohli