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Subject:Re: Is your documentation copyrighted? From:Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> Date:Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:44:28 -0500
Tracy Boyington wrote:
>It could be a way to prove when you wrote
> something, but I've heard it doesn't hold up in court. Does anybody know if it
> really works?
>
I've read of cases (from the thirties and forties) in which it was held
a valid way to prove the date of an _invention_ (under patent law). I've
never heard of it being applied in copyright cases.
