From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 16:44:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F98106564A for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:44:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A7B18FC12 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16122 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jun 2011 16:44:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 2011 16:44:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=FYILFQK7+w6x00DTKaxnxkYIS5Ycqma0OFLglskHTpZQm384vADZAswryDgYdp4yxaHPb03JNtKvKPSHGyar4phRTZyp4d86znZ3ErhFsSPj9VhpZ7A3mJVPmP8qyG3e; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QXc9M-0002Sb-Me for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:44:05 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:28:51 -0600 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:28:51 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110617162851.GC73147@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> <4DFA03A3.8090500@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110616152941.GL5630@external.screwed.box> <201106161154.06300.rsimmons0@gmail.com> <20110616162032.GN5630@external.screwed.box> <3d43539af0e60964a0406b8df304f16c.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <4DFAD6BF.5070307@bah.homeip.net> <4DFAE497.2030408@bah.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DFAE497.2030408@bah.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: free sco unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:44:06 -0000 --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:22:31AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2011-06-17 06:53, Adam Vande More skrev: > >On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> > >>Copyright you get without registration and without payment, and one > >>can't give it up. > > > >Again, registration is pretty important if you want to an expanded > >ability to legally enforce it. >=20 > Where i live no need to register, you get copyright if the stuff > fulfills certain criteria, originality is one. Registration aids enforcement. Of course, there's always the "poor man's copyright registration" approach, where the moment you have something you would like to protect by copyright, you can seal it up in an envelope and mail it to yourself. Keep it sealed. If you ever need proof of copyright, including date of copyright, you can then take the sealed envelope with you to court to show the postmark date, unseal the envelope, and show the full text of the document inside. Of course, it's not *perfect*. It may be that postmarks stop being regarded as suitable proof of date at some point, thanks to increasing ability to fake a postmark. Your sealed envelope trick only works once. You need to protect that sealed envelope against loss and damage. You would need to do this for *everything* for which you want to have some kind of proof of date of copyright, which can fill up file cabinets in a hurry. This is why copyright registration is still useful. > > > > And you can assign your copyright away. >=20 > Only the monetary. The creator can sell the right to make copys of the > work but the creator still retains the copyright. That depends on jurisdiction. In the US, you can negate copyright entirely by assigning something you have created to the public domain. The fact this is not applicable everywhere is the reason for things like the CC0 waiver, however. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk37gMMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWtgwCg+BM5lv5xdKD+2CPMkCzfRV6o qy0AnRqvxsMzYwmPbeRmIjg2Hbe1KDu9 =rw9Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB--