[sword-devel] Some questions re: a locked module

[Hastings]

At 10:09 PM 11/30/2003, Chris Little wrote:

>To be honest, I'm not sure what purpose registering a copyright has (other
>than helping to fund the Copyright Office :).

It gives them a stronger hand if they ever go after someone in court. They 
could wait and register later but could end up with a smaller club to hit 
infringers with.

>Larry is up in Canada, but did register at least that one work in the US.

I don't think that means it could not also be registered in other countries.

>  And, in any case, we only need concern ourselves with US law since that's
>where CrossWire is physically and we've probably got the most draconian
>copyright laws here anyway.

Maybe. It is hard but not impossible to have a judgement against you from a 
country you have no presence in.

>.. they're (for the most
>part) sweat-of-the-brow stuff that has been explicitly disallowed as a
>basis for copyright.

I think we will see laws preventing the extraction of (but not the remaking 
of) sweat-of-the-brow stuff for purposes that damage a market for the work 
that contains the stuff. I believe some other countries already have laws 
of this sort.

Jerry