On 24/02/2020 18:46, William Levak wrote: > The artwork that produced IC masks was always copyrightable. > Not sure that is true, mask rights came quite recently. There were several patents MOS took out on the 6502, which Ricoh cut out of their rip off chip for Nintendo (which is why BCD mode doesn't work on a NES). There was nothing commodore could do about it, because there was no protection for the masks. On 24/02/2020 14:45, geneb wrote: > In the US, the act of creating a work automatically bestows copyright. > However, if you want to be able to sue for infringement, it needs to > be registered. (https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html) > You can register it just before you file the suit though. You will only get statutory damages and costs if you had registered it before the infrigement (or within three months of publication, but that ship has long sailed) but you would be able to get a court order and if that is ignored then the infringer is going to be in a whole load of trouble.Received on 2020-05-30 01:06:16
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