07-27-2013, 12:46 AM
Um, I think that the Copyright office should be _more_ Luddite. (Please hear me out before evisceration...)
The big elephant in the room is plagiarism. It happens everywhere, even here. (I'm guilty of this myself; often I will give a fragment of a quote or song without proper attribution.) Plagiarism is why copyright _exists_.
If I was King Of Copyright, not only would I request a physical form, but it would have to be delivered in person, with an official ID.
Also:
"So I have to send them a disk with representative print pages or print out all pages which is impossible as many are interactive and change with user input."
I don't see how something that hasn't been created yet can be copyrighted, without written releases and any other number of legal means. A word or phrase can be trademarked, the means of interaction could possibly be patented. But I find it disturbing that under the terms of this discussion, I could beat you to the office and copyright now anything that archipirata may possibly produce in the future.
Eustace (Possibly a trademarked name in my case, but I've given the New Yorker all sorts of credit in previous posts.)
The big elephant in the room is plagiarism. It happens everywhere, even here. (I'm guilty of this myself; often I will give a fragment of a quote or song without proper attribution.) Plagiarism is why copyright _exists_.
If I was King Of Copyright, not only would I request a physical form, but it would have to be delivered in person, with an official ID.
Also:
"So I have to send them a disk with representative print pages or print out all pages which is impossible as many are interactive and change with user input."
I don't see how something that hasn't been created yet can be copyrighted, without written releases and any other number of legal means. A word or phrase can be trademarked, the means of interaction could possibly be patented. But I find it disturbing that under the terms of this discussion, I could beat you to the office and copyright now anything that archipirata may possibly produce in the future.
Eustace (Possibly a trademarked name in my case, but I've given the New Yorker all sorts of credit in previous posts.)