Best way to protect my new commercial software.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:54:26 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> 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.

In which case copyright isn't going to protect you -- especially if you 
were relying on automatic copyright and haven't registered it.




-- 
Steven