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Monday, July 14, 2008 5:00am — IP ON THE NET, GLOBAL IP STRATEGY Copyright strategy - protecting functionality?Looking for a way to get closer to 'functional' protection for copyrightable subject matter? What about getting such protection for software code - copyright lasts for a lot longer than patents do, and in some cases you may be able to make it last forever.So - how about when you have your final source code ready to use in your next software product, also creating / refactoring / generating a whole lot of (all?) logical variations of key parts of the code and publishing them (and registering them in countries where you can register copyright)? (Creating / refactoring can be done automatically by a computer.) The point being that now anyone who wants to use similar code has a much higher hurdle to overcome in order to prove that they did not copy. This fact alone will be quite valuable in many situations. What do you think? Post a Comment | Permalink | + del.icio.us 0 Comments0 Trackbackstrackback url: http://duncanbucknell.com/trackback.php?id=373 |
 
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