Re: PROTECT YOURSELF (US Copyrights)

"Miles Jackson" <milesflash_at_bigplanet.com> wrote in message news:1059841963.133070_at_news1.bigplanet.com...
> Protect your hard work! Do you have that all important Copyright? Did
you
> spend a lot of blood, sweat, and tears developing an application only to
> leave it open to FREE DISTRIBUTION because you neglected to secure a US
> Copyright? I am a software developer with 20+ years experience. Yes, I am
> an old fart. But I do have lots of US Copyrights on file and my
> applications are all protected. Some go back to the CP/M days. Hey, I
said
> I was old. But I also have some that are as current as this year. Yes,
I
> know it is 2003, I'm not THAT old.
> I am a software copyright specialist. I have dozens of my own and have
> helped hundreds of other developers protect their work by acquiring their
> own copyrights. I know the rules, the forms, the procedures, the "Do
This"
> and the "Don't Do That" things that are required to successfully get that
> all important copyright. No need to submit or divulge any source code to
> me. I can usually secure a copyright for an application for as little as
> $50.00 US.
> PROTECT YOUR TIME AND MENTAL STRESS.
> Contact me at MILES732_at_BIGPLANET.COM

Or read up on copyright at , for example, the library of congress

HOW TO SECURE A COPYRIGHT
Copyright Secured Automatically upon Creation The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright. (See following Note.) There are, however, certain definite advantages to registration. See "Copyright Registration."

Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time.

This is in fact common in the western world. You create a work subject to copyright, you have copyright. End of story. paying spammers money is not part of the deal.

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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