#CompuS Copyright
09-Oct-86 22:51:34
Sb: #35806-#CompuS Copyright
Fm: Dan Moore 74035,243
To: Roger F. Becker 71426,1053
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Who says you have to send the money to the Copyright Office in order to
have a copyright????? That is _NOT_ what the law says. All registering
with the Copyright Office does is provide legal proof of the starting date
of the Copyright. Not filing does not in any way remove (or prevent) the
copyright on the work.
I see no contradiction at all in CIS claiming an anthology copyright on the
DLs. That is not at all the same as what your 100 PD disks are. Do you
have a disk catalog and description of each file? If you do then the two
cases are similar, if you don't they aren't.
Who said the author didn't retain CIS to protect his copyright? Not having
talked to author neither one of us is in a position to say whether he did
or didn't.
If you go check on MAUG (where a lot of the file came from) you will find a
lot of programs uploaded by Apple as official updates to system software.
For these files Apple has a contract with MAUG to distribute these files
(MAUG is the only legal electronic distribution source). If any of these
files were involved (I don't know, I only saw a very limited part of
Sande's BBS so I can't say for sure) then CIS (as the represenative of
MAUG) had a very definite right to do something.
You sure seem convinced that CIS is just a big guy picking on a little
guy. Have you every considered that CIS is being picked on since they are
number one? (This is just a valid a claim as the one you made.)