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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: Software copyright procedure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.034708.697@cubetech.com>
- Keywords: copyright
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1ilg5aINNd1m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:47:08 GMT
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- In article <1ilg5aINNd1m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
- >
- >
- >Richard Stallman, if you're reading, you can press "n" now :-)
- >
- >My client would like information on exactly how to protect her NeXTSTEP app,
- >the source of which she plans to distribute to licensees, against copyright
- >violations (as opposed to copy protection). She remembers the Cobol world in
- >which the first and last 50 pages of code were submitted to the U.S. Copyright
- >Office - no kidding :-)
- >
- >I've been dutifully placing copyright notices in each Objective-C file header,
- >but doing the same for nibs, tiffs, dbmodels, etc. hasn't worked so well :-)
- >What's the proper procedure?
-
- I would talk to an attourney. It's really the only way to go. You
- still need to submit the first and last 50 pages of code if you file
- for copyright...
-
- I'll give you the name and number of a really great international
- patent and intellectual property attourney here in Houston who
- understands the technology if you want...
-
-
- andrew
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- Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our
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