On Fri, 18 Mar, 2005 at 01:34PM -0500, Dan Easley spake thus: > > the mailing something to yourself to prove creation date technique, or "poor > man's copyright", seems to have, at least in most Berne Convention countries, > very little purpose. > > see http://www.copyrightauthority.com/poor-mans-copyright/ for a fair > elaboration. of course, different rules for different countries. Probably the best way to be able to prove authorship is to keep a deconstructed version - separate tracks, if that's how you work, or the file format for whatever you use (Muse, a tracker, etc.) It's still not 100% proof, but the difficulty in recreating a track will help. The other party won't be able to show this. Perhaps we could do with some kind of trusted third party - someone that keeps dates, hashes, filenames and author names in case proof is needed later. I don't know how this would work legally, but surely if there is no association between the author and the service provider, then it's another good piece of evidence. -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
