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| From | James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: pure C90 environment |
| Date | 2020-05-19 12:35 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ra11sj$ilb$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <r8no0t$hev$1@z-news.wcss.wroc.pl> <ebdcfe90-81ef-4662-bb16-75818db7fd0c@googlegroups.com> <r8oglg$12r$1@dont-email.me> <ra0tpe$mic$1@dont-email.me> <ra0urs$718$1@dont-email.me> |
On 5/19/20 11:43 AM, David Brown wrote: > On 19/05/2020 17:25, James Kuyper wrote: >> On 5/4/20 3:36 AM, David Brown wrote: >> ... >>> ... In some >>> countries, I could take your "Public domain" software, put my own >>> copyright notice on it, and then sue you for copyright infringement if >>> you don't pay me a license. >> >> What you're saying sounds familiar, but also highly counter-intuitive. >> Can you provide at least one specific example of a case where someone >> who was not the creator of a work successfully sued the actual creator >> for copyright infringement? I'm not talking about someone who falsely >> claimed to be the creator; I'm talking about cases where the suit was >> successful despite the court having accepted as valid the creator's >> proof that he was the creator of that work. >> > > No, I can't. > > Usually, code that is put in the public domain is small and either of > little worth, or for functions that code be duplicated fairly easily. > Basically, it's rarely worth fighting over. > > But if you give out your code and say "I renounce my copyrights, and > disclaim all ownership of this code", why would you think you have any > protection against other people taking the code and doing whatever they > want? Because, as I understand it, only the actual creator of a work has a right to hold a copyright on that work (unless the creator has voluntarily transferred that right to someone else, including as a common special case transferal to the creator's employer). That someone has released their creative work to the public domain doesn't allow anyone else to honestly claim to be the creator of that work, and doesn't transfer that copyright to anyone else. Obviously, someone can falsely claim to be the creator of a work, or can falsely claim that the copyright was legally transferred from the creator to themselves - I'm not talking about such cases. I'm asking about cases where the creator's claim to be the creator, and his claim that he has never transferred his own copyright to anyone else, have both been accepted as valid by the court. > There is also the opposite situation. In many jurisdictions, you cannot > give away your rights - even if you write "public domain" on the code, > you retain the copyright. That means if you are on the receiving end of > the public domain code, you have no explicit license to use the > software, and no explicit rights. The original copyright owner can > change the rights or sue /you/ for using the software without a license. That's a reason why, to allow the widest possible use of your software, it might be necessary to license it. That part I understand. It's only the possibility of being successfully sued for copyright violation when you have adequate proof of the fact that you created it, and have not transferred your copyright to anyone else, that seems quite odd to me. Releasing to the public domain is not equivalent to transferring your copyright to anyone else who wants it. As I understand it, such transfers can only occur voluntarily, and only with the recipient being specifically identified as such by the previous holder.
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Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-03 17:54 -0700
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Re: pure C90 environment David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-05-04 09:36 +0200
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Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 07:08 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 08:12 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2020-05-05 11:36 -0500
Re: pure C90 environment James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-19 11:25 -0400
Re: pure C90 environment James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-19 11:39 -0400
Re: pure C90 environment Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-05-19 08:45 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-05-19 17:43 +0200
Re: pure C90 environment James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-19 12:35 -0400
Re: pure C90 environment David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-05-19 20:14 +0200
Re: pure C90 environment James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-19 14:42 -0400
Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-19 12:11 -0700
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Re: pure C90 environment Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-19 14:39 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-19 13:24 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-05-20 09:26 +0200
Re: pure C90 environment antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-19 21:11 +0000
Re: pure C90 environment James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-19 18:51 -0400
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Re: pure C90 environment David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-05-20 09:33 +0200
Re: pure C90 environment Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-05-04 11:49 +0100
Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 04:00 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-05-04 17:58 +0100
Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 10:18 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 13:57 -0700
Re: pure C90 environment Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 12:11 +0200
Re: pure C90 environment Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-05-02 11:26 +0100
Re: pure C90 environment Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 13:06 +0200
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Re: pure C90 environment Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 16:20 +0200
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Re: pure C90 environment Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 18:37 +0200
Re: pure C90 environment Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-05-02 18:18 +0100
Re: pure C90 environment Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 19:25 +0200
Re: pure C90 environment Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 19:25 +0200
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Re: pure C90 environment Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-05-19 20:44 +0100
Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-19 13:03 -0700
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