Re: Reclassification - Wordperfect

["Arkain" <rwking@no.usa.spam.net>]

Are you trying to tell me that the work on my hard drive is copyrighted even
though I haven't registered a copyright??? Cool! Now for the small but fatal
flaw.

The Copyright law states "fixed in a tangible medium". Since we're taking
things to the "letter of the law", let me be very semantic. The only
software that is "fixed" on its medium is CDROM/DVD-ROM software and
firmware on non-reprogrammable ROMs. All other mediums are mutable. As such,
the letter of the law doesn't support software on tape, floppy, Zip, LS-120,
HD, CDRW, DVD-RAM, EEPROM, Flash ROM, etc... I know that's a low blow, but
lawyers are known to go even lower. ;-)

Arkain

Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote in message
news:%5Dj5.55$%G2.983147@dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net...
> Under the current Copyright Act, copyright attaches at the moment an
> original work is fixed in a tangible medium.  Another way of saying this
is
> that unpublished works are protected without the necessity for the author
to
> take any affirmative steps other than creating the work.
>
> Registration of a copyrighted work with the Copyright Office confers
> additional benefits, including the ability to seek statutory damages.
>
>