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Originally posted by tgnb
GiantSpider, I already posted several links where you can read all about IP and Copyrights. If you choose to ignore that and ask for the same information over again then nothing I can say will change your mind.

And Carltos Cool, no matter how many times you repeat it, things do NOT automatically become copyrighted. You have to do things for them to be copyrighted. It doesn't just happen on its own magically as you write code. Even if its as simple as attaching a copyright notice to start with. At a bare minimum you have to do something if you expect to get any protection under Copyright law. Doing nothing won't give you copyright. Go back and click on the links i posted previously and do some reading. Its a lot because its a complext topic.

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In the United States, copyrights are automatic as soon as the expression is secured in a fixed medium (for example, a drawing, sheet music, a videotape or a letter). There is no requirement that a copyright be officially registered for the author to obtain rights. Registration of works does however, have its benefits: serving as prima facie evidence of a valid copyright and being able to be awarded statutory damages and attorney's fees (whereas works registered after an infrigement only recevie actual damages and profits). The original owner of the copyright may be the employer of the actual author rather than the author himself if the work is a "work for hire". Again, this principle is widespread; in English Law the Copyright Designs and Patents 1988 provides that where a work in which copyright subsists is made by an employee in the course of that employment, the copyright is automatically assigned to the employer.

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