Best way to protect my new commercial software.

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Wed Dec 19 04:58:18 EST 2007


>>>>> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> (SD) wrote:

>SD> It means that there is a serious problem of "orphan works", where rare
>SD> and valuable films from the 1920s and earlier are rapidly decaying
>SD> into an unusable powder because nobody dares copy them lest the
>SD> unknown copyright owners descend like vultures and sue you for
>SD> copyright infringement *after* you've done the hard work of restoring
>SD> our cultural heritage.

Our (Dutch) copyright law has a specific exemption for this particular
case for libraries, museums and archives.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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