Re: A85: Copyrighting

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Re: A85: Copyrighting


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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