Blake, 
 
 > BG: Also, international law does not recognise any character-set 
 > BG: specific copyright-characters, such as 0xA9 in ECMA-Latin-1, 
 > BG: etc. Use the (c) sequence. 
 > BG:  
 > BG: Note that I'm not a lawyer, so don't hold me to that info :o) 
 
just betwen two very pious laymen... 
 
Does international law negate the USA position that if one wants to collect 
damages for the violation of your copyright, it is in one's best interest to 
formally register the copyright material? 
 
I is my understanding that the registry bit is one reason that, if possible, 
one goes after a patent on even the extension of what might otherwise be 
simply a copyrighting procedure, in that it is more protective, if one can 
qualify for it.. 
 
Further, to keep in the spirit of the echo here, would one, in your lay 
opinion, be more protected as to one's code, if in C++, one used a class of 
copyright and related function(s) to do the notification job? 
 
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Mike @ 117/3001 
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