Re: [NTLK] FW: Fwd: Hacked WiFi driver

On 1/7/07, Apostolos Koutropoulos <der_admiral@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Just to interject here:
> for patents: you need to apply and be awarded a patent in order to
> have claim to one
> for copyright: copyright is automatically awarded to a creator as
> soon as the author has a work made. No need to do paperwork or
> anything. it's automatic

This is true. I hold copyright to this sentence the moment it is stored in
some kind of permanent form, however, I might have trouble in court if
somebody else says he wrote it first. If, on the other hand, I
registeredmy copyright with the appropriate governing body, I would be
able to prove
that the sentence or whatever other work is in question did in fact exist
and was done by my hand at a specific time. The question of who wrote it
first is then easily established.

On Jan 7, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Dale Raby wrote:
>
> > This is legal semantics. Did he write it? If so, then it is
> > "his", in one
> > sense, but if he didn't copyright or patent it, he might have
> > difficulty
> > establishing a legal claim to it.
>
>
>
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