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. > > 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. > > 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. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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