Best way to protect my new commercial software.

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2007-12-18, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2007-12-18, Jan Claeys <usenet at janc.be> wrote:
>> 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?

No, I believe the above comment is false. The Berne Convention of 1887
makes copyright automatic as soon as a work is written or recorded.
Thus, most of Europe has had automatic copyright for a very long time,
and all of it does now.