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Re: registering a composition
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Hans Åberg |
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Re: registering a composition |
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Sat, 23 May 2020 23:35:10 +0200 |
> On 23 May 2020, at 23:00, antlists <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 23/05/2020 20:21, Valentin Villenave wrote:
>> I’m not saying the world is a nice place (it isn’t); you should, at
>> the very least, secure*your* copyright by having a solid proof of
>> anteriority, as we discussed. What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t
>> overestimate the possible threat to your work if you were to publish
>> it freely, nor the amount and quality of “protection” you’ll get from
>> any RMO out there.
>
> for the sake of a few pennies, there's an easy way to prove the date. Used, I
> believe, by some law firm in America for its legal documents, and easy enough
> to do here in England too.
>
> Put all of your stuff on a CD. Now run a program that generates an MD5
> checksum or whatever it is, and save both the command and output to a text
> file. (I'd throw in a listing of the CD too.) Print this, as an advert, in a
> legal newspaper such as - in London - Lloyds Gazette.
>
> That CD can now be copied freely, the MD5 sum won't change. And the advert
> proves that it was in existence on the date of the newspaper. You don't even
> need to save a copy of the newspaper - the fact that it is a newspaper of
> legal announcements means that there will be loads of copies kept, probably a
> lot of them by courts themselves!
Don’t use MD5 though, as it is not considered secure. SHA-256 and SHA-512 are
better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
- Re: registering a composition, (continued)
- Re: registering a composition, Wols Lists, 2020/05/24
- Re: registering a composition, David Kastrup, 2020/05/24
- Re: registering a composition, antlists, 2020/05/24
- Re: registering a composition, David Kastrup, 2020/05/24
- Re: registering a composition, Wols Lists, 2020/05/24
- Re: registering a composition, Valentin Villenave, 2020/05/24
- Re: registering a composition, Wols Lists, 2020/05/24
- Re: registering a composition, Valentin Villenave, 2020/05/22
- Message not available
- Re: registering a composition, Valentin Villenave, 2020/05/23
- Re: registering a composition, antlists, 2020/05/23
- Re: registering a composition,
Hans Åberg <=
- Re: registering a composition, David Wright, 2020/05/23
- Re: registering a composition, Tim McNamara, 2020/05/23
- Re: registering a composition, Francesco Petrogalli, 2020/05/27
- Re: registering a composition, Valentin Villenave, 2020/05/27