Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:6079 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:13213 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:3895 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!adelphi!news From: news@adelphi.edu (News Feed) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Please boycott Xircom Summary: About copyrights, I thought... Message-ID: <960@adelphi.edu> Date: 2 Oct 90 01:31:00 GMT References: <1990Sep26.042027.23110@news.clarkson.edu> Followup-To: poster Organization: Adelphi University, Garden City, NY Lines: 32 In article , nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: > > [2] I have also been advised that, lacking copyright registration, all > that I could accomplish is to force you to stop distributing the driver, > which you have already agreed to do. > > -- > --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 > It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I myself hold 3 copyrights on software I developed for the printing industry dealing with CAM and I remember posing the following question to my lawyer: How long do I have to register my copyright, and when does the copyright take effect? According to him and the form TX as well as the related booklet on filing form TX from the Library of Congress, you have up to 2 years to file your copyright registration, and the code that comes off ones pen is copyright by him/her, as long as it is not a work for hire or contracted oherwise. The implied registration covers the period before registration. As a matter of fact my lawyer told me, and I did in all cases, to just file the docuemtation and a binary listing of the code, thus leaving the source to be considered "trade secret". He stated this gives better protection. My point is, why is the above listed driver not copyright in the same manner. I certainly am confused now. Can anyone state the facts? I hate to see people get burned like that.