[clug] SCO copyright registration

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Tue Jul 22 14:05:15 EST 2003


On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:

> "Registering copyright" is only a *claim* to copyright. It is not
> a judgement by the copyright office on the validity of that claim.
> SCO filed a copyright registration so they can claim statutory
> damages *if* it is later found that their copyright has been violated.

Yeah, my understanding is that it is a "proceedural step" along the way to 
sueing.

Mikal

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