Best way to protect my new commercial software.

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Tue Dec 18 13:46:10 EST 2007


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.
> 
Which basically means letting anyone else see it, i.e. sending as an
E-Mail, posting on Usenet, etc.


-- 
Chris Green



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