Re: Copyrighting

Anthony Claiborne <abc[_at_]ares.csd.net> wrote:
>
> The question for web pages is, what is appropriate "deposit material"?
>
> Deposit material for published works in traditional media comprise two
> complete copies of the best edition of the work. There are a large
> number of ways to deposit material for "machine readable works", which
> center around depositing identifying material showing the entire
> copyrightable content of the work. What _I_ have done, however (and
> NOTE WELL I have not yet received a response from the copyright office
> on this) is deposit two complete hard copies of the HTML source code,
> two complete copies of printouts of every web page from a browser, and
> two complete copies of screen dumps of every web page (these latter two
> may really differ if _your_ copyrighted material is contained in pages
> implementing framing).
>
> I would be very interested in what others have used as deposit material
> for copyright registration applications for web pages.

Your deposit was very ambitious. On the advice of the Copyright Office, I have deposited only a screen printout of every page of the "web site" .... and only ONE copy, because (to my surprise) the Copyright Office does not regard web sites as "published works."

Bob Cumbow
<cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> Received on Mon Jul 28 1997 - 17:59:56 GMT