Hi :) Nice answer! Good to have links in there too. I really thought that the poor-man's copyright was a legit way but now it';s obvious that it couldn't be. It's waaay too easy to fake it.
That was interesting about the Berne Convention. Next time the issue crops up i might look into that more. My boss was asking about how to apply copyright to something a couple weeks ago so i just pointed him to "Creative Commons" without really knowing what i was doing. Thanks and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Toki Kantoor <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 3:04 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] License for a LO Calc document? > > >On 30/07/13 21:48, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > >> If you take a printed copy and a CD copy of the spreadsheet. Add all of >> the documentation about how, and when you made it. Then mail it to >> yourself. Make sure it is sealed very, very well, so no one could say >> you placed the stuff in the envelope at a later date. > >What you describing is usually referred to as _The Poor Man's >Copyright_. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html is >description of its validity in the United States. > >http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp describes issues with using it >in the United States. > >http://www.copyrightauthority.com/poor-mans-copyright/ provides examples >of why it usually is not accepted as proof of copyright. > >> mailing to start and then get involved with a copyright lawyer. > >If the idea is to prove dates, then have somebody other than your lawyer >notarise each page, and give the resulting notarised on each page >document to your attorney. But this only works in countries in which >there is no central registration, _and_ where such registration is not >mandatory for pursuit of damages in a court of law. > > > >jonathon >-- >LibreOffice in a Multi-Lingual Environment. > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
