Deposit requirements for software copyright registration

I am confused about the current state of the deposit requirement for computer software. There are a couple of publications on the Copyright Office website; one outlines the deposit of portions of source code and warns against the deposit of object code only; the other speaks of the deposit of object code as though that was the regular way to do it. I always understood that the first way mentioned was the way it had to be done, although software authors are understandably reluctant to deposit source code.

Does anyone know what the preferred practice is-I am not sure that code and regulations research will be much help here, and whether there remains any question about whether object code is proper subject matter of copyright?

Thanks, Steve Timmer
<stimmer[_at_]planetlawyers.com> Received on Tue Mar 10 1998 - 16:31:51 GMT