Cubic Dollars

[Clarence Wood]

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>Do any of the software oriented folks out there know what material you have
>to submit to complete a copyright on software???? Or does anybody even
>bother cuz of the development cycle being so short????
>

  When writing windows programs, in the 'Help' menu box, the copyright and 'c' in a circle is present with date and author.  I have not really dug into this in depth but I believe that this procedure protects the software.  Hackers can remove this information and I have read of several software programmers who, to protect their work, have imbedded certain keystrokes, in the program, that when entered while the program was running, would display information about the copyright and author.  This technique won one independent programmer a bundle in court when he proved that he wrote the program, stolen and marketed by another company, by typing keystrokes which initiated a screen display showing his copyright information.

Clarence