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Article #1057Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Tim Smith
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
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O'Neill <darrow@oneillaw.com> wrote: >You don't have to publish to have the protection, but if you register >your work (which you should do if you publish) you MUST supply a copy >of it. The Copyright Act gives the Copyright Office authority to loosen that requirement, and they have done so for computer software. I don't recall the exact rules, but I seem to recall that they only require you to deposit the first and last N pages of a listing of the software, when N is something like 10 or 25. If one wanted to get tricky, one could publish first in, say, Canada or Mexico or Japan or some other convenient Berne country, and wait 30 days before publishing in the U.S. That would make that other country count as the country of origin for the work, if I'm reading things right, and that would mean that the registration and deposit requirements would not apply. --Tim Smith
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/13 Message-ID: <701evp$gpe$1@52-a-usw.rb1.blv.nwnexus.net> X-Deja-AN: 400894089 Cache-Post-Path: 52-a-usw.rb1.blv.nwnexus.net!tzs@localhost References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <3620efc0.14706992@news.concentric.net> <6vs8ma$4eu$1@52-a-usw.rb1.blv.nwnexus.net> <36253cb4.10343733@news.concentric.net> Organization: Institute of Lawsonomy Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss