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Matthias Warkus  
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 More options Mar 3 1999, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc
From: mawar...@t-online.de (Matthias Warkus)
Date: 1999/03/03
Subject: Re: Public license question
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It was the Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:21:44 -0500...
..and Rick Onanian <r...@mail.artmold.com> wrote:

> I'm glad that I'm wrong. It's a good thing that copyrights are that
> way... Authors should be protected.

> However...If I write something, and someone else writes the same thing,
> and I take them to court, neither of us having mentioned any copyright,
> how do we prove who did it first? Carbon dating on the paper? :)

See, this is why it's good to have a Copyright notice even though you
don't really need one. Anyway, these are things you can do:

- mail a copy of your manuscript to yourself in a sealed envelope, keep it
  (sealed)
- have a solicitor/lawyer (what's ein Notar / un huissier in English?)
  keep a sealed copy, let him sign a paper about the exact date you
  gave him the copy
- let a bank lock a copy up in their vault, keep the receipt
- etc. etc.

All these are ways to time-stamp your manuscript to prove you were
first.

mawa
--
The power of an organization may be measured by the anger of its
enemies.
-- Emile Guillermo, introducing a piece on the ACLU on National Public
   Radio's All things Considered.


 
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