Best way to protect my new commercial software.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-12-18, Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:04:29 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2007-12-18, Jan Claeys <usenet at janc.be> wrote:
>>> Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +0000, schreef Grant Edwards:
>>>
>>>> Uh what?  I don't know what country you're in, but in the US, it
>>>> doesn't take any time at all to copyright something.  The mere act of
>>>> writing something copyrights it.  I thought it was the same in Europe
>>>> as well.
>>>
>>> No, it's only copyrighted when you _publish_ it.
>> 
>> Interesting.  So, in Europe, if somebody steals something you wrote
>> before you get it published, they're free to do with it as they please?
>
> Please do not conflate theft and copyright infringement, or theft and 
> plagiarism.

I wasn't.  If I write something down and somebody steals that
paper, that's theft.

> They are very different concepts, and confusing them does not 
> help.

Sorry if I was unclear.  The "stealing" was of the medium
containing the authored work.

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