invisible watermarks in images
How do you insert invisible watermarks in images for copyright purposes? I'm looking for a python library. What algorithm do you use? What about performance and efficiency? ...
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Copyright question - Dictionary Application
I am wondering about what kind of copyright issues should one be aware of, when developing a dictionary application. There are plenty of sources where you can "collect" words from internet. But what precautions should be used before using them? Lets say, there are plenty of sources where you can get wordlists without any licensing stri...
What's the best way to protect a Windows application from piracy?
I will be selling a Windows application into an industry where many of the users will know and be friendly with many of the other prospective users. I expect that some users wouldn't think twice about copying the application for those other prospective users. What is the best way to insure that a Windows application isn't copied for oth...
Copyright and Fair Use in Distributable Software
At what length of text and/or length of audio snippet does a piece of commercially distributable software pass the threshold of fair use and violate the included work's copyright? Does attribution absolve the developer from infringement? An example would be a quote from a novel used on a start-up screen. ...
What are the legalities of repackaging other's RSS feeds into a new presentation?
I know that services like my.yahoo.com allow you to add content from RSS feeds to your personal page, but in general they are links which draw the user to the site which provided the feed. What are the legalities and implications of using RSS feeds as a data source for a site which repackages the data so as to be unrecognizable that it ...
Do you put copyright notices in your (proprietary) code?
I'm wondering if, when working on source for your employer, people include a copyright notice. For example /* * Developer : Developer Name ([email protected]) * Date : xx/yy/zzzz * All code (c)2008 company name inc. all rights reserved */ or anything similar? ...
How to go about copyrights for original programs, games, etc?
I just finished a game for a certain mobile device. I'm just entertaining the idea of copyrighting my work. How does one do this? I really have no idea so any help is great! A friend who has some patents said that "you automatically own the copyright to anything original that you create." hmm not sure about this. note: I support O...
what are some resources to learn about copyright law?
I once heard a prominent scientist say, of global warming, that he didn't realize how much he would have to learn about politics. I just read an excellent article in DDJ about the Jacobsen verus Katzer case. When in university, I didn't know how much I would have to learn about the law. It seems to me that a big hole in the classic com...
What are the best options for non-malicious cross site scripting?
I want to write a browser based app that retrieves data from multiple websites and posts it to my server app. What are the best options to do this? The most straightforward approach would certainly be to have the server app retrieve the data, but that's not possible for copyright reasons. In my case individual users do have the right to...
What is the reason to retain proprietorship on commissioned work?
I have always included clauses to transfer to my clients full author, ownership and use rights for all the source code, original images, original resources, etc. I develop/create for them. Of course, I retain author, ownership and use rights for my libraries and I usually do not include source code for those. If the client requires my l...
Putting Copyright Symbol into a Python File
I need to include a copyright statement at the top of every Python source file I produce: # Copyright: © 2008 etc. However, when I then run such a file I get this message: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xa9' in file MyFile.py on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details. Apparen...
Wikipedia Pseudocode and IP
Given that Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, if one were to take pseudocode or actual code examples from it and translate them into a given programming language, could this be considered making a derivative work? More generally, how does copyright work for encyclopedias, code cookbooks, internet forums to w...
Semantic HTML markup for a copyright notice
When a web site is licensed under Creative Commons, I use the rel-license microformat. When a web site is licensed under regular copyright, I have a boring paragraph element. <p id="copyright">© 2008 Example Corporation</p> That id attribute on there is just for CSS styling purposes. I'm wondering if there's some better way to ma...
How to insert a copyright statement into files created by wxGlade?
I use wxGlade to create Python scripts, which use wxWidgets. wxGlade directly manipulates XML files, which describe the wxWidgets based GUI. Those files have the *.wxg extension. From the *.wxg files, it is possible to generate code which actually runs the GUI in one of several languages, and I am using it to generate Python code. I wo...
What copyright license to select?
What is copyright licence type to select in order to make the code free for the public in all possible ways. Is "The MIT License" the best option? ...
How to prevent people from copying my .NET software
I only sell a few licenses of my software and I am worried when I sell them to the same company that they will all just share the CD around the office. Is there a simple way to keep this from happening? I don't need it to be hacker proof, and I don't mind if it takes me sending them a license key for each time they buy a new version. ...
Adding the same comment to every code file in a Visual Studio solution
Background: We are using VS 2008 and are in the process of upgrading from TFS 2005 to 2008. We have a solution that contains several projects and overall have hundreds of code files. We want to add the same text as a comment to all of these files (a copyright message). Does anyone know of a quick/easy/efficient way to do this? Also, ...
Copyright Question- Bejeweled
I've been doing some research on game development. I'm a Bejeweled addict, and have been spending some time thinking about the algorithmic problems that had to be solved. Along the way I've noticed that there are tons of independently-developed (NOT by Popcap) Bejeweled clones. So, my question is: Do all these little development shops...
Alternatives to FlexNet Publisher & Reprise?
I've been tasked with investigating licence server vendors. (Note: licence servers, or "key servers", are a type of "software copy protection" wherein copies of software deployed to a site call a central licence server to see if they're allowed to run. This is more than just a licence key generation/verification algorithm!) We need a l...
BSD License, reference to other software
Hi. Where do the reference to other softwares that my software uses(and I shipped with) and their authors? Here is the scenario. I have this software done by the technology department of my college(IGRAFU). The software uses other softwares made by other individuals and institutions(Like Phyml and Hypertree). They are all open source an...