In <015301c016f1$6f6fc820$dc5d5acf@heidikins>,
"Heidi M. Anderson" <heidi@www.bmeworld.com> wrote:
>How many of you explicitly copyright your FAQs in the text
>of the document. Why or why not?
Copyright exists whether an explicit statement is present or not.
Registration has not been required for some time, but may be
a pre-requisite for recovering damages, IIRC.
Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ is a good current resource on this topic,
but it seems to still be in transition between ISPs - it is no longer at:
http://www.aimnet.com/~carroll/copyright/faq-home.html
and is not yet at:
http://www.tjc.com/copyright/
There are more (fairly stale) links at and below:
http://www.swcp.com/~dmckeon/uce-law.html#Copyright
and search for "copyright" to catch some others in that list.
I include an explicit statement in case I ever decide to sue
a "shovelware" company that gathers FAQs and other content for
publication (usually on CD) without permission. All it would provide is
a little more argument against an "innocent infringement" defense.
There is a lot of theory floating around about how the Internet may
change case law about copyright, but not very many net.dependent cases
to support much of the theory.
In the many discussions I've seen on the net about copyright, I would
guess that at least 20% of what is offered as fact is inaccurate -
people wildly conflate copyright, trademarks, and patents, and rely on
poor recollections of what they learned before the last 2 or 3
significant changes to copyright law. That 80/20 estimate also applies
to this post. Caveat lector.
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