Re: Reclassification - Wordperfect

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

No flaw, and not a low blow, at all!

"A work is 'fixed' in a tangible medium of expression when its embodiment in
a copy or phonorecord, by or under the authority of the author, is
sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced,
or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration."
[from the Copyright Act]

Thus, all the work on your hard drive that has the requisite originality is
copyrighted from the moment of fixation.


"Arkain" <rwking@no.usa.spam.net> wrote in message
news:398f1a2d$1@hal.grnco.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. ;-)