Re: Legal (c) Copyright'ing..

[mikal@CAIRO.ANU.EDU.AU (Mikal Still)]

>        Simply claiming a copyright establishes one.  IOW, if I write a piece
>of software, and indicate "Copyright (c) 1994 Dan Brown", it's copyrighted.
>However, if I don't register the copyright within a certain length of time
>(90 days, I think), some of the avenues of recourse close.  I'd suspect that
>most of these aren't registered copyrights.

Hey! In countries that are signatories to the Berne convention (most of
them esp. Australia and USA) then you don't even have to register
copyright.



Mikal - I have lots of opinions