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Tom, I agree, but of course, I no lawyer either but I have talked with them a lot over the years. I'm not sure what the standard is for code that is written, has the copyright notice embedded in it, is not registered with the copyright office, and then is published in a magazine or on-line. Certainly most printed periodicals, such as the old Midrange magazine, Q38 and News/3x/400 actually copyrighted for their work and paid the $10 (now $20) to register it. But does that mean the article or more precisely the code is copyrighted too? Yes it is as a part of that magazine, but in and of itself? No. Is it "fair use" if someone then uses that code? Well in 99.9 of the instances, I think the author indicates that you can use this code. But I think the idea is that you don't use it verbatim, that is unchanged, and try to sell it to someone, but without adding your own copyright registration, since it is part of a larger work, that's probably not enforceable. But who know. I'm not sure but I don't think you can arbitrarily say "I copyright this code, hereby place it into the public domain, provided you follow my personal guidelines". You either place it into the public domain or you don't, just because you said "Include my T&C's with it" I don't think that it matters. But what do I know. Bob Cozzi Cozzi Consulting www.rpgiv.com -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Qsrvbas Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:30 AM To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Copyrights (was Re: strsep sourc) rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 10. Re: strsep sourc (Buck) > >Scott's comments about derivative works comes from the idea that you can't >copy pages from my copyrighted math textbook, publish it with a new cover >and call it your own. > What bothers me about all of this is the "standard practice" of using copyrighted programs that (nearly?) all of us have done... E.g., we see a copyrighted article in a trade magazine that provides an example template for "Work with..." functions and think nothing of using it more or less directly as the basis for every "Work with..." function we ever write. Downloadable code is usually available too, now that telecomm is everywhere. Technically, that's a possible copyright violation and I challenge anybody to prove that a lawyer _couldn't_ convince a court of it. But it's common practice. It's been so common for so long that the entire concept of copying _published_ code for inclusion in applications calls into question the validity of enforcing copyrights once the code is widely published. How is it possible to know when a copyright is "serious"? (I don't know a better word for this.) Tom Liotta _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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