Richmond and copyright

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Mon Aug 18 20:40:21 EDT 2003


The SCO comment was just a stupid remark, sorry to confuse the issue.

> So stuff published on this list is already public domain. Now there is
> the issue of copyright. I believe that you can protect the copyright of
> an application that you create and defend that in a lawsuit. You could
> do that without regard for algorithms that were previously published
> and without fear of previous Art issues like in patents. The trick is
> to share only what you would not mind giving away.

Copyright in the US is quite different from that in Australia. Over there
you need to register the software to claim copyright. Here's it's implied at
the time of creation. Unless I explicitly sign over the copyright to my work
it remains mine. It's important to note that there are agreements between
the US and Australia to recognise each others copyright laws as I'm sure
there are between most countries. So as you can see the issue gets a bit
fuzzy when you have a list like this made up of people from different
countries.

Regards

Monte





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