Re: Legal (c) Copyright'ing..

[danb@pro-newton.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <Pine.3.07.9402121814.A3598-a100000@cap.gwu.edu>
dpfarrer@CAP.GWU.EDU (Daniel Pfarrer) writes:

>Did these programmers go through the correct Copyright office, which
>charges $20 & you have a great change of waiting 90+ days for it to be
>approved, or are they just saying "(c) 1994" and taking their own legal
>action?

        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.

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