From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Milly Bitcoin <milly@bitcoins.info>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 05:53:20 +0000
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] This thread is not about the soft/hard fork
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Copyright doesn't care how notices are written. They are merely informative=
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to humans reading them. Anyhow, this is not development related, so please=
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direct any further discussion of it to me directly (with any applicable CCs=
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and NOT to the mailing list.

Thanks,

Luke

On Tuesday, October 06, 2015 5:49:40 AM Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Maybe you are confused with a compilation notice that would say "All
> Content Copyright and other rights reserved by its Respective Owners" or
> something similar.  That is not the same thing as claiming ownership
> using the "c" inside the circle.
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> There is also a difference between claiming a copyright for individual
> works as part of a compilation as opposed to claiming a copyright on the
> compilation itself (which is what the current notice is).
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> Russ
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> On 10/6/2015 1:08 AM, Milly Bitcoin wrote:
> >> The copyright notice refers to the fact that each contributor owns
> >> copyright
> >> to his own contributions. There is no legal group that owns copyright
> >> to the
> >> entirety of the code.
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> > No, that is not what such a notice means.  The part after the "c" in the
> > circle is the legal owner.  If the legal owners are not properly
> > identified then the notice is not valid.
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> > ---
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> >  From Nolo:
> > What is a valid copyright notice?
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> > A copyright notice should contain:
> > =E2=80=A2the word "copyright"
> > =E2=80=A2a "c" in a circle (=C2=A9)
> > =E2=80=A2the date of publication, and
> > =E2=80=A2the name of either the author or the owner of all the copyrigh=
t rights
> > in the published work.
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> > For example, the correct copyright for the fourth edition of The
> > Copyright Handbook, by Stephen Fishman (Nolo), is Copyright =C2=A9 1998=
 by
> > Stephen Fishman.
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> > ---
> > from USPTO:
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> > Use of the notice informs the public that a work is protected by
> > copyright, identifies the copyright owner, and shows the year of first
> > publication.
> > ---
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> > Russ
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