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From: cs224065@brap0a94 (Nicholas Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware? Hah!
Message-ID: <22977@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 00:15:10 GMT
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In article <333@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <2608@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>Copyright 1988 by Richard J. Sexton.
>>
>>Ahh! Now this article is copyrighted.
>
>And it's always wise to include "All Rights Reserved".
>
Don't bet on it...as I recall from the booklet on corporate security
they gave me when I first went to work, the only ABSOLUTE way to
secure the copyright on the document is with the symbol-which-is-
usually-approximated-by-(c).  You know, the small letter c with the
circle around it.  The c with parentheses doesn't cut it, neither
does "Copyright (c) 1988 by Nick Thompson.  All Rights Reserved."
Of course it doesn't hurt to put that in, and it will certainly
give you some protection, but apparently the letter of the law says
that you need the little symbol that isn't in the ASCII character
set.  So how do you protect your source code?  Well, all the stuff
mentioned above counts for something, I hope...

If you want, I'll look this up and quote later.


Nick Thompson
Kallisti (k) 1988 - All Rites Reversed