Re: Asimov Site

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <39ac1d4c.94137148@24.9.0.17>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
 
> On 29 Aug 2000 06:27:45 +0200, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
> wrote:
> 
>> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000828084518.12214A-100000@step.mother.com>,
>> Sandra Warnken  <warnken@mother.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> This should apply to copyright.  A person who went to the trouble of
>>> copyrighting their product should
>> 
>> Yeah, that's REALLY a lot of trouble to do that....   <g>
> 
> You cut off the interesting bit of her statement.  She said:
> 
>>> This should apply to copyright.  A person who went to the trouble of
>>> copyrighting their product should have that respected.  It's not his or
>>> her *** choice *** that you are chosing to keep the computer that uses it.  
> 
> Which could easily be changed to:
> 
> This should apply to copyright.  A person who went to the trouble of
> creating and copyrighting their product should have that respected.
> It's not his or her *** choice *** that you are chosing to keep the
> computer that uses it.
> 
> Which I find to be a rather interesting take on the whole situation.
> Thanks Sandra.
 
Well, that's good news for people who want free copies of software:
most software authors just put a (c) mark on their product and don't
bother to register it.  So all you have to do is to check whether
it's registered by the copyright office -- if it isn't, then it's
free for anyone to copy it.  Is that correct?
 
Now, how do I check whether a particular piece of work is registered
by the copyright office or not, and whether the copyright fee was paid
or not?
 
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