Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

Phil,

The publisher of the magazine holds the copyright to the code that is published.
The author is compensated for writing the article and code and must sign what
amounts to a transfer of copyright to the publisher.

Having code published in a magazine does not make it public domain.  This is up
to the discretion of the publisher.

To make code public domain you yourself should publish it, like from your own 
web
site.

Phil wrote:

> Phil,
>
> > . . .or releasing the code into
> > the public domain.  (The latter is what happens e.g. to code published in
> > many magazines.)
>
> I think this is what I was asking - why not just release it into the public
> domain.  How does copyright work when someone has paid you to write the
> code?  Who has rights to it?
>
> Phil G.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> > Behalf Of Phil Gregory
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:24 PM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:22:10AM -0400, Phil wrote:
> > > With all this trouble, why bother to license it at all?  Is
> > there reason why
> > > you'd want it licensed?
> >
> > In order to allow others to use the code.  Legally, code has been ruled to
> > be copyrightable.  Thus, any code that you write is automatically
> > copyrighted and "belongs" to you.
> >
> > The exact details of how copyright applies to source code are somewhat
> > muddy at the moment, but the generalities of copyright hold.  Copyright
> > law gives the author exclusive rights to his code, while other can do very
> > little with it.  (There is the fair use doctrine, but that's one of those
> > muddy details with source code, and we're discussing an entire program,
> > which would be too large to fall under fair use.)  If you want others to
> > be able to use your code, you ought to give them the legal right to, which
> > means either supplying a license for the code or releasing the code into
> > the public domain.  (The latter is what happens e.g. to code published in
> > many magazines.)
> >
> > Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, but I have done a fair bit of research on
> > this topic.
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