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Subject: Re: Copyrighting Software
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Date: 3 Oct 89 23:26:44 GMT
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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.

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