Re: How to provoke a copyright "interference"

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Thomas Workman <tworkman[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
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> the prior application should be cancelled? How does one do that? In
> the patent world, one would provoke an "interference" by copying a
> claim, is there an analog to this in copyright??

I'll let the copyright mavens answer the copyright part of the question, however, an interference analog wouldn't apply here. In the patent world (in the US), the first to invent gets the right to exclude. Of course in the copyright world, independent creators can each have rights in their respective works.

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