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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,trial.misc.legal.software
Subject: Re: New Question..
Message-ID: <11628:Jan501:57:0291@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 01:57:02 GMT
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I suggest that trial.misc.legal.software is the best place for this
discussion (transported from rec.games.programmer).

In article <37566@cup.portal.com> CTuna@cup.portal.com (Image - BBS) writes:
> If proof was available that persons A and
> B created the program, wouldn't it be fairly easy to prove that person C
> had filed incorrectly?

``Fraudulently'' is the word. Unless, of course, C can prove that the
copyright was assigned to him.

Trade secret law is the best way for A and B to make it excruciatingly
painful for C to steal their code.

---Dan