He didn't proof himself wrong...
Copyright is indeed a VERY complex issue. Many things depend on what country the original author is in, what he made, why he made it, etc...
When people (especially on the net) say that something is automatically copyrighted if they write it, then be sure that it isn't (at least not in the way they think it is). Especially on the net, where international laws and national laws contradict or don't exist.
Furthermore, what is said in that Wiki is very true: simply put: copyright is BS (again especially on the net), it means simply and absolutely nothing. If you place a copyright mark under a written text of yours and publish it on the net, everybody can still copy it freely and claim it as his own! It is only until you have PROOF that you have written it that you can do something about it (and no, the copyright mark is not proof at all; proof is when you have registered it at an official bureau -and this costs money-). This is called registering the product. Also, there are many forms of registrations, one thougher/stronger then the other.
Note that even the "poor mans' copyright"* isn't officialy (in court) proof that you have something written/made first. The judge (or whoever is in charge of the despute) doesn't need to take this into consideration at all.
* post the article to yourself in an evelop and never open it. The validated poststamp proofs the date and time.
Also note that you can't copyright certain things at all (even if you put the copyright mark under it).
90% of all copyright marks on the net mean nothing more then a sign that the author whishes that the text/whatever isn't copied without asking him/her, nothing more (even if you whish it was more)...
And this is also exactly what tgnb said/meant.
quote:
Originally posted by tgnb
There are certain things you need to do before your code is copyrighted in the REAL way (not in the "lets-just-place-a-copyright-mark-underneath-it"-way.
In short: the copyrights of which 90% of all people are talking about means absolutely nothing, nil, zero, nada (well, maybe it gives you the "right" to start flaming the person who breached your "copyright", but that's it. And indeed, we then come again to
moral, which is already talk about in this thread).
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