[linux-audio-user] OT / RE: poor man's copyright

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Fri, 18 Mar, 2005 at 01:34PM -0500, Dan Easley spake thus:
> 
> the mailing something to yourself to prove creation date technique, or "poor
> man's copyright", seems to have, at least in most Berne Convention countries,
> very little purpose.
> 
> see http://www.copyrightauthority.com/poor-mans-copyright/ for a fair
> elaboration.  of course, different rules for different countries.

Probably the best way to be able to prove authorship is to keep a
deconstructed version - separate tracks, if that's how you work, or
the file format for whatever you use (Muse, a tracker, etc.)

It's still not 100% proof, but the difficulty in recreating a track
will help.  The other party won't be able to show this.

Perhaps we could do with some kind of trusted third party - someone
that keeps dates, hashes, filenames and author names in case proof is
needed later.  I don't know how this would work legally, but surely if
there is no association between the author and the service provider,
then it's another good piece of evidence.



-- 
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb.  Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)