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From: Milly Bitcoin <milly@bitcoins.info>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] This thread is not about the soft/hard fork technical debate
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 01:49:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561360F4.2010906@bitcoins.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5613573C.1080002@bitcoins.info>

Maybe you are confused with a compilation notice that would say "All 
Content Copyright and other rights reserved by its Respective Owners" or 
something similar.  That is not the same thing as claiming ownership 
using the "c" inside the circle.

There is also a difference between claiming a copyright for individual 
works as part of a compilation as opposed to claiming a copyright on the 
compilation itself (which is what the current notice is).

Russ


On 10/6/2015 1:08 AM, Milly Bitcoin wrote:
>> The copyright notice refers to the fact that each contributor owns
>> copyright
>> to his own contributions. There is no legal group that owns copyright
>> to the
>> entirety of the code.
>>
>
> No, that is not what such a notice means.  The part after the "c" in the
> circle is the legal owner.  If the legal owners are not properly
> identified then the notice is not valid.
>
> ---
>  From Nolo:
>
> What is a valid copyright notice?
>
> A copyright notice should contain:
> •the word "copyright"
> •a "c" in a circle (©)
> •the date of publication, and
> •the name of either the author or the owner of all the copyright rights
> in the published work.
>
> For example, the correct copyright for the fourth edition of The
> Copyright Handbook, by Stephen Fishman (Nolo), is Copyright © 1998 by
> Stephen Fishman.
>
> ---
> from USPTO:
>
> Use of the notice informs the public that a work is protected by
> copyright, identifies the copyright owner, and shows the year of first
> publication.
> ---
>
> Russ
>




  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-06  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-05 15:56 [bitcoin-dev] This thread is not about the soft/hard fork technical debate Sergio Demian Lerner
2015-10-05 16:39 ` NxtChg
2015-10-05 16:51 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-05 16:56 ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-05 17:01   ` Paul Sztorc
2015-10-05 17:33     ` Peter R
2015-10-05 17:56       ` NxtChg
2015-10-05 22:56       ` Btc Drak
2015-10-05 23:05         ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-05 17:35   ` Btc Drak
2015-10-06 18:23   ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-10-06 18:28     ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-10-06 19:34       ` naama.kates
2015-10-05 17:03 ` Btc Drak
2015-10-05 17:26   ` Tom Zander
2015-10-05 17:52     ` Btc Drak
2015-10-05 18:04     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-05 18:33       ` Tom Zander
2015-10-05 18:50         ` NotMike Hearn
2015-10-05 17:33 ` s7r
2015-10-05 18:51   ` Tom Zander
2015-10-05 18:35 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-05 19:13   ` Tom Zander
2015-10-05 19:41     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-05 20:05       ` Steven Pine
2015-10-05 20:21         ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-06  7:17           ` cipher anthem
2015-10-06  7:20             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-10-06  7:29               ` Marcel Jamin
2015-10-06  8:34                 ` NotMike Hearn
2015-10-06 19:40                   ` naama.kates
2015-10-05 20:28         ` Santino Napolitano
2015-10-05 20:35       ` Tom Zander
2015-10-05 20:54         ` Dave Scotese
2015-10-05 20:56         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-05 21:08           ` Tom Zander
2015-10-05 21:16             ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-05 21:26             ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-06  7:14               ` Tom Zander
2015-10-05 21:27             ` Peter R
2015-10-05 21:30               ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-05 21:36                 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-05 21:37                 ` Peter R
2015-10-06  1:37           ` Tom Harding
2015-10-06  3:20             ` Peter R
2015-10-06  3:39               ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-06  4:54                 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-06  5:08                   ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-06  5:49                     ` Milly Bitcoin [this message]
2015-10-06  5:53                       ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-06  6:03                         ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-06 22:14                       ` phm
2015-10-06  5:07               ` NotMike Hearn
2015-10-06  5:33                 ` Peter R
2015-10-05 19:36   ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-05 23:18 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-10-06 17:28 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-10-07  0:04   ` Sergio Demian Lerner

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