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If you are not a US citizen, find out about copyrights on the World Intellectual Property Organization, (www.wipo.int) as computer programs are NOT on the list of the Berne Convention, but is included in the notion of a production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain. | If you are not a US citizen, find out about copyrights on the World Intellectual Property Organization, (www.wipo.int) as computer programs are NOT on the list of the Berne Convention, but is included in the notion of a production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain. | ||
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== Steps == | == Steps == | ||
#Determine how much of what you send to the Copyright Office will be code and how much will be screenshots. As part of the processing for copyrighting software, you will have to send a hard copy deposit of your software to the Copyright Office. The Copyright Office regards your source or object code and screen displays to be part of the same computer program and thus requires only a single registration to copyright all components of the same software application. However, the Copyright Office presently has no designation for "computer software" as a type of work to be registered on its forms. You have to decide how you plan to register the work under the categories it does have. | #Determine how much of what you send to the Copyright Office will be code and how much will be screenshots. As part of the processing for copyrighting software, you will have to send a hard copy deposit of your software to the Copyright Office. The Copyright Office regards your source or object code and screen displays to be part of the same computer program and thus requires only a single registration to copyright all components of the same software application. However, the Copyright Office presently has no designation for "computer software" as a type of work to be registered on its forms. You have to decide how you plan to register the work under the categories it does have. | ||
