Re: TI-H: Copyrighting things...the mistakes we've made
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Re: TI-H: Copyrighting things...the mistakes we've made
You doen'y ahev to if it is a small company or anyhting else. Only large
companies should just so if another copies it directly then the company has
a edge with a boughten copywirte. This would prove that they did. For a
single person to have one it is as simple as
Copyright @ 1997 John Fraser @ Happyware
Now forget it. Have you been to any other sites about it? I have and the
text is wirtten their is plain english..
John Fraser @ Happyware 1997
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> From: "ryan pogge" <ryanpogge@hotmail.com>
> To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: TI-H: Copyrighting things...the mistakes we've made
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:15:36 PST
>
> this is a hardware list, shut up.
> you must pay for a fucking copyright.
> no more discusion on this till someone purchases a copyright
>
>
> >From listown@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se Wed Nov 12 22:21:59 1997
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> >The electonics is included in Pictoral/ Graphical stuff because it has
> a
> >SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM, AND THAT CAN AND IS COPYRIGHTED.
> >
> >Brand names can at least be restricted (maybe copyright) which is why
> >Apple computer had to pay Apple recording studios for the company name
> >and McIntosh Labs for the name Macintosh!
> >
> >>
> >>Hello! I've been reading the messages on the EuP that hass been
> >'created/updated' by a few people recently, and I'm getting a little
> >tired with getting 5-10 messages with everybody arguing over who has
> >rights to what and whatever. I go this from the US Copyright Office
> >website, and it is in accordance to the US copyright laws. I don't know
> >about other countries, but here goes...(read the WHOLE THING!!! more
> >info at bottom)
> >>http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ01.html#wcc
> >>
> >>...
> >>WHAT WORKS ARE PROTECTED
>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >>Copyright protects "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a
> >tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly
> >perceptible, so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a
> machine
> >or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories:
> >>
> >>(1) literary works;
> >>(2) musical works, including any accompanying words;
> >>(3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music;
> >>(4) pantomimes and choreographic works;
> >>(5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;
> >>(6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
> >>(7) sound recordings; and
> >>(8) architectural works.
> >>These categories should be viewed quite broadly: for example, computer
> >programs and most "compilations" are registrable as "literary works;"
> >maps and architectural plans are registrable as "pictorial, graphic,
> and
> >sculptural works."
> >>
>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >>WHAT IS NOT PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT
>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >>Several categories of material are generally not eligible for Federal
> >copyright protection. These include among others:
> >>Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression. For
> >example: choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or
> >improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or
> >recorded.
> >>Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or
> designs;
> >mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring;
> >mere listings of ingredients or contents.
> >>Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles,
> >discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description,
> >explanation, or illustration.
> >>Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and
> >containing no original authorship. For example: standard calendars,
> >height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables
> >taken from public documents or other common sources.
> >>...
> >>
> >>Well, I know that that is a little long, but there isn't anyhing about
> >electronic diagrams and schematics. That would need to be patented.
> >Which REQUIRES YOU TO REGISTER!!! And that costs $$$.
> >>Another thing, is that even if you make it, and release it (such as to
> >ticalc.org) it becomes information that you can get from a common
> >source(you can get it anywhere in the world). That, according to the
> >last line, says that it is not protected.
> >>
> >>I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ANY COMMENTS ON THIS, UNLESS IT IS A
> CONSTRUCTIVE
> >COMMENT, NOT AN INSULT!!! I have only provided this as information to
> >people on this list, just to clarify some issues. You may do what you
> >wish with this info, but remember the above line.
> >>
> >>
> >>Jeff Dezur
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