[Leaplist] Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell

[Fred Moore]

Homer Whittaker wrote:
> From that and numerous other articles it seems to me that people seem
> to believe that just because they write something and have it
> published that this in itself establishes a right to claim a
> copyright.  Many such formula seemed to have started back in the far
> past ages.  Then all of a sudden some character says it's mine by
> right of publication and so the world smiles on them and says "of
> course".
> Methinks that is or should be, BULL.
> Homer Whittaker
>
>
> William Warren wrote:
>> read the linked article.  It's all in there with some external links
>> to even more information.
>>
>> Steve Litt wrote:
>>> I don't disagree -- I'm trying to get source references so I can
>>> write an article about it for Troubleshooters.Com.
>>> SteveT
>>>
>>> On Saturday 13 October 2007 08:22, William Warren wrote:
>>>> it's a strange coincidence that a week before the lawsuits a MS IP guy
>>>> joined the company.  There's three other MS folks in the top
>>>> echelon of
>>>> the company.  I don't believe in coincidence.  It's in the groklaw
>>>> article.  You may disagree..that's cool..but when it's done MS will
>>>> spend more money trying to kill Free and open source software.
>>>>
>>>> Steve Litt wrote:
>>>>> How do you know?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday 13 October 2007 00:05, William Warren wrote:
>>>>>> another MS financed attack on opensource.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hank Lambert wrote:
>>>>>>> Interesting lawsuit; I don’t understand this one at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141
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Actually the second you author something it becomes copyrighted by you
as your original work.  You can register it, or not your decision.  It
has been like this since I think 1976..  Here is the difference.. if you
register your copyright and have a legal battle you are entitled to
punitive damages.  If you don't register the copyright you can only
recover actual damages.    So copyright is a very real thing.. you don't
even need to publish the work, just creating it created the copyright... see

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/   ... Fred



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