On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:36:40PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Copyright notices can use aliases, right? I don't know anything > > about how enforcable that renders that person's copyright claim, but > > I don't think it renders the license invalid. > > At least in the US, the copyright would still be enforceable if they > actually wrote the software, since a copyright notice is no longer > required. (Well, ignoring the effect upon statutory damages.) > > However, an improper copyright + licensing notice could make the > license itself invalid (or at least questionable) since it wouldn't be > a clear statement from the copyright holder that they licensed a work > appropriately. Any Stephen King fans here? Anyone have access to any copies of his Richard Bachman novels from before it was disclosed that Richard Bachman was a nom de plume of Stephen King? As should be well-known, Stephen King is a money machine. I find it hard to believe he'd have published under a pen name if to do so would have meant exposing himself to claims of fraudulent copyright. For a more recent example, see the novel _Primary Colors_[1]. [1] http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/primary_colors.htm -- G. Branden Robinson | Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. branden@debian.org | Chemistry is really physics. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Physics is really math.
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