Re: Asimov Site

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 30 Aug 2000 18:37:33 +0200, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
wrote:

>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?

I have no idea how you would find out but it isn't necessary.  You
don't NEED to register a copyright to get copyright protection.  Here
is a quote from the US Copyright Law from which can be found at:
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/92chap4.html

    � 408. Copyright registration in general8

          (a) Registration Permissive.-At any time during the
              subsistence of the first term of copyright in any
              published or unpublished work in which the copyright was
              secured before January 1, 1978, and during the
              subsistence of any copyright secured on or after that
              date, the owner of copyright or of any exclusive right
              in the work may obtain registration of the copyright
              claim by delivering to the Copyright Office the deposit
              specified by this section, together with the application
              and fee specified by sections 409 and 708. Such
              registration is not a condition of copyright protection.

Please note the last sentence of that quote.

You still seemed to have missed the interesting bit of Sandra's
statement which was:

>> their product should have that respected.
>> It's not his or her *** choice *** that you are chosing to keep the
>> computer that uses it.

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