Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!eecae!cps3xx!usenet From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Copyrighting Software Message-ID: <4845@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 23:26:44 GMT References: <39426@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI Lines: 20 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