Re: A85: Copyrighting


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Re: A85: Copyrighting




If your source code clearly identifies you as the programmer, why would
you need to encrypt all of the copyright data within the program?  Also,
wouldn't all of the comments in the code (especially if they are
frequent) help to prove that you made it?

Justin Bosch
justin-b@juno.com

On Wed, 02 Dec 1998 05:33:50 PST "Jason Blakeley"
<phantomlogic@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>That's why you put the copyright line in every copy of your code. 
>Nobody 
>is going to be able to change every copy of the code you made. If you 
>think you'll need more proof, just keep all the scribblings you may 
>have 
>jotted down on paper when working out the code. The file dates (even 
>though they can be changed) along with your program notes provide 
>sufficient proof, especially if the notes were written in ink, because 
>
>they can be ink-dated. As a last resort, you could take the copyright 
>line, encrypt it, and hide it in your code somewhere. It will look 
>like 
>jibberish to any would-be cracker, but would prove beyond a shadow of 
>a 
>doubt who made it.
>
>Bryan Rabeler wrote:
>
>>Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 06:59:59 +0100 (MET)
>>From: Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
>>To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
>>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: A85: Copyrighting
>>Reply-To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
>>
>>
>>If you want that to stand up in court, you will have to prove you
>>copyrighted it first.
>>
>>-- 
>>Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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>>On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jason Blakeley wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> All you have to do to copyright something is to put "Copyright 
>(c)", 
>>> then the year of copyright, and then the name of whoever is 
>copyrighting 
>>> it on every copy of whatever is being copyrighted (e.g. "Copyright 
>>> (c)1998 John Doe"). That's all you have to do. There is no 
>registering 
>>> or anything. You only have to register stuff for trademarks and 
>patents. 
>>> So for a program, you just put that line in your program, like on 
>the 
>>> title screen, and its copyrighted. If you make revisions of the 
>program, 
>>> change the year to whatever year you release the revision in.
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps.
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Jason Blakeley
>>> 
>>> Confucius say:
>>> "He who stand on toilet, is high on pot!"
>>> 
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>>
>
>
>
>Sincerely,
>Jason Blakeley
>
>Confucius say:
>"He who stand on toilet, is high on pot!"
>
>
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