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Originally Posted by pdurrant
An interesting case. I revise my opinion.
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Yeah, I find myself flip-flopping now, too!
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In UK law it seems that you might be able to bring a case for copyright infringement with some hope of winning it. But it would be a large gamble, so you'd need to be sure the potential reward was worth the risk.
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Yeah, it's hard for me to imagine anyone copying my code -- for
this book, anyway -- turning around and then selling their own version of it under their name, and making any sort of "fortune" from it. The subject matter of it is, actually, just too obscure (not that many people like reading "ye olde bookes").
I guess the whole point of my interest in having
some kind of copyright notice is more just simply a matter of principle, rather than my foreseeing myself in some high-stakes court case or something some day -- i.e. I just simply deserve to have credit for my efforts, above-and-beyond just merely pumping out public domain texts. I actually put time and effort into correcting and emending them, etc., and those efforts
did take a certain level of "skill" (and not just "labour").