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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: copyrights
Message-ID: <31125@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 14 May 89 18:28:51 GMT
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Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <606.2467C5AD@busker.FIDONET.ORG> Howard.Spindel@busker.FIDONET.ORG (Howard Spindel) writes:
|>the question of copyrighting it comes up.
|
|to copyright your 
|program call your local government information office and ask to get a 
|copy of Form TX.  It will cost you 10 dollars to copyright a program.

Copyrights are automatic; you need only insert a message:

	Copyright [insert year here] [insert name here]

and your program is copyrighted.  It is also recommended that you add
the message "All Rights Reserved", which is necessary in some
countries and gives you greater protection.

Registering your copyright makes prosecution easier and gives treble
damages (I believe).  Additionally, you may register your copyright up
to five years after copyrighting the program, although I recommend
doing it immediately if you're going to bother doing it at all.

Note:  (C) or (c) are not valid although a lot of people (myself
included) often include them in addition to the copyright message.
Thus:

	(c) Copyright 1989 Jim Frost

is valid, but:

	(c) 1989 Jim Frost

is not.

Happy hacking,

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu