Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!bkliewer From: bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ?->Copyright my Program Message-ID: <8721@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 13 May 88 15:09:14 GMT References: Reply-To: bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 22 In article cy03+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chao-Ping Yang) writes: >Could somebody tell me about the procedure in obtaining a copyright The important thing is to place a copyright notice in the program (and on the disk) with the year of publication (not year of creation). Registration is fairly easy (although not strictly necessary). If you register within 30 days of publication, you can recover your costs for a lawsuit, otherwise you can only recover damages. With that exception, you only need to register if you sue somebody. You might want to buy the book Legal Care for Your Software byt Daniel Remer. In addition to copyright info, he covers trademarks, trade secrets, and includes sample contracts for beta test sites, disclosure agreements, etc. To get copyright Form TX, write: Copyright Office; Library of Congress; Washington, DC 20559 (the one annoying omission from the book is this address)! Bradley Dyck Kliewer Hacking... bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu It's not just an adventure It's my job! Author: EGA/VGA A Programmer's Reference Guide