Supriya_India
Club Cricketer
PlZ help I made some soft . I want Distribut them.What I do ?
How to get Copyright for my soft.
how to my soft is leagl
How to get Copyright for my soft.
how to my soft is leagl
How To Get copyright
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tassietiger
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I'm not sure if there are any laws covering people making soft. In fact I don't know a great deal of people who have made soft. In fact I think soft may be an adjective and not even a noun, which makes it impossible to make soft.
If you meant software, then I have no idea. Sorry.
If you meant software, then I have no idea. Sorry.
Supriya_India
Club Cricketer
soft is software
duffarama
Chairman of Selectors
Here you are:
Typically, a work must meet minimal standards of originality in order to qualify for copyright, and the copyright expires after a set period of time (some jurisdictions may allow this to be extended). Different countries impose different tests, although generally the requirements are low; in the United Kingdom there has to be some 'skill, originality and work' which has gone into it. However, even fairly trivial amounts of these qualities are sufficient for determining whether a particular act of copying constitutes an infringement of the author's original expression. In Australia, it has been held that a single word is insufficient to comprise a copyright work.
In the United States, copyright has relatively recently been made automatic, which has had the effect of making it more like a property right. Thus, as with property, a copyright need not be granted or obtained through official registration with the government. Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium (such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape or a letter), the copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights. However, while a copyright need not be officially registered for the copyright owner to begin exercising his exclusive rights, registration of works (where the laws of that jurisdiction provide for registration) does have its benefits: serving as prima facie evidence of a valid copyright and enabling the copyright holder to seek statutory damages and attorney's fees (whereas in the USA, for instance, registering after an infringement only enables one to receive actual damages and lost profits). The original holder 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 Act 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.
Copyrights are generally enforced by the holder in a civil law court, but there are also criminal infringement statutes. Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting activity, but may now become more commonplace as the copyright collectives like the RIAA are more and more targeting the file sharing home Internet user. Thus far however, these cases have usually been settled outside of court, with demands of payment of several thousand dollars accompanied by nothing more than a threat to sue the file sharer, thus such cases do not even make it to civil law courts in reality.
Absence of the copyright symbol does not mean that the work is not covered by copyright. The work once created from originality through 'mental labor' is instantaneously considered copyrighted to that person.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Typically, a work must meet minimal standards of originality in order to qualify for copyright, and the copyright expires after a set period of time (some jurisdictions may allow this to be extended). Different countries impose different tests, although generally the requirements are low; in the United Kingdom there has to be some 'skill, originality and work' which has gone into it. However, even fairly trivial amounts of these qualities are sufficient for determining whether a particular act of copying constitutes an infringement of the author's original expression. In Australia, it has been held that a single word is insufficient to comprise a copyright work.
In the United States, copyright has relatively recently been made automatic, which has had the effect of making it more like a property right. Thus, as with property, a copyright need not be granted or obtained through official registration with the government. Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium (such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape or a letter), the copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights. However, while a copyright need not be officially registered for the copyright owner to begin exercising his exclusive rights, registration of works (where the laws of that jurisdiction provide for registration) does have its benefits: serving as prima facie evidence of a valid copyright and enabling the copyright holder to seek statutory damages and attorney's fees (whereas in the USA, for instance, registering after an infringement only enables one to receive actual damages and lost profits). The original holder 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 Act 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.
Copyrights are generally enforced by the holder in a civil law court, but there are also criminal infringement statutes. Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting activity, but may now become more commonplace as the copyright collectives like the RIAA are more and more targeting the file sharing home Internet user. Thus far however, these cases have usually been settled outside of court, with demands of payment of several thousand dollars accompanied by nothing more than a threat to sue the file sharer, thus such cases do not even make it to civil law courts in reality.
Absence of the copyright symbol does not mean that the work is not covered by copyright. The work once created from originality through 'mental labor' is instantaneously considered copyrighted to that person.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
embi
International Coach
A shorter version (in my words):
Basically, if your software is original (is not very similar to any other) then you get automatic copyright on it.
If you register it, you can do a lot more to anyone who infringes it, but it is some hassle.
Just stick a copyright notice in the source files, in the installation and/or in the program itself, like ? Miles Bryant 2006
EDIT: Just to let you know, this post is automatically copyrighted. If you so much as quote it, I will sue!
Basically, if your software is original (is not very similar to any other) then you get automatic copyright on it.
If you register it, you can do a lot more to anyone who infringes it, but it is some hassle.
Just stick a copyright notice in the source files, in the installation and/or in the program itself, like ? Miles Bryant 2006
EDIT: Just to let you know, this post is automatically copyrighted. If you so much as quote it, I will sue!
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Supriya_India
Club Cricketer
Thanks for this help
hondeyho
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Another way to copyright something is to send something to yourself in a sealed envelope and recorded delivery, don't open the envelope.
Then, if someone does copy your idea just show them the sealed envelope with the date of the delivery on it, it will hold up in court. It's the cheap and easy way to do it.
Then, if someone does copy your idea just show them the sealed envelope with the date of the delivery on it, it will hold up in court. It's the cheap and easy way to do it.
.::Stevo::.
International Coach
LOL, least he didnt make a hardtassietiger said:
blackleopard92
Panel of Selectors
there's another way.
simply do not distribute the source code!!!
simply do not distribute the source code!!!
duffarama
Chairman of Selectors
You know that stealing code is easier than stealing money from a house?blackleopard92 said:there's another way.
simply do not distribute the source code!!!
I would encrypt your source code as well and have backups.
blackleopard92
Panel of Selectors
duffarama said:
I will keep the source code in a laptop, which has never been connected to net.and then put it in a safe then another..........
Encryption is also easy to break.
However, zipping the file with a powerful compression format like .ace and password protecting it is another method.
The only known method of breakin compressed file is raw attacks. *.zip files are easy to break, while *.rar , *.ace are impossible to break, takin about millions of years
Ste
Executive member
Whats the software you have developed by the way? Just want to know so I can bring my own version of it out now.
Supriya_India
Club Cricketer
I m making a face editing soft for c2k5.Ste said:Whats the software you have developed by the way? Just want to know so I can bring my own version of it out now.
abhishek_rox
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waiting for it
Supriya_India
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It take timeabhishek_rox said:
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