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by regulation_d
3102 days ago
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Just to be clear, failure to meet the requirements of Mandatory Deposit has not historically affected your copyright status. > any copyrighted work (including software) distributed in the US needs to be deposited with the Library of Congress. This is overstating things. It's unlikely that the LOC really wants your stuff, and if it does, it will let you know by sending you a Notice of Mandatory Deposit. Until then, "Mandatory" doesn't really mean mandatory. Also, you don't need to register the work to receive copyright protection. If you write some code put it up on Github without a license, that's your code and you have the right to deny people the right to use it (among other
rights). It's probably going to be difficult to prove that some random person is using your code, but that doesn't affect your rights in the code, because you fulfilled all the requirements to create those rights: you (1) created something and (2) fixed it in a tangible form. As I mentioned, registration isn't necessary, though it does get you some presumptions that would be helpful if you ever end up in court. Disclaimer: IANAL (anymore) |
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