Ok i have been seeing a lot of people the last year or so with different views and opinions on those that write or modify various coding and scripts, then claim they own it with a copyright.
Well it's a hard one to chew on.
It seems people get this miraculous idea that they can write a script, put a copyright line in it and actually think they own it,The Same thing with people that write CSS html and other various coding. It's almost imposable to get a copyright on such scripting or coding as this.
Scripts and codes are nothing but a computer language developed for the computer to read, what one person may write one way, another person can write another way to do the same exact thing, Plus it's all been done before somewhere already. If anyone would own anything it's the very people that invented java and other coding, and that can not be labeled to just one source nor person.. this has been developing for years.
This is not coding for software developments of which you can get a patten and own or sell your software, it's standard java,html,jquery php or whatever else for web pages. It's very hard to get a copyright on things such as this, why? because just about everything is all the same way anyway.. I dont care who writes or modifies what.. It's international computer language for the computer to read and function for what the script was written for... nothing more nothing less,
Now if your talking about images, slogans, music, video or some other source of media or pattens that are implemented for use within a code ,then thats a whole new ball game. And all material things as in the small list above can be copyrighted. That kind of goes without saying,
But scripts are scripts, It would not matter if Stephen Hawkins him self written it, anyone can learn it, anyone can do it, anyone can use it. It would not so much be what kind of scripting it is, it would be if there are any copyrighted materials that are some how implemented into any coding.. Or other software programs, Like for example. Lets say you are very smart and came up with a way to write your own script like photoshop and using real phoptoshop elements developed by Adobe, well that would be a big NO NO.
Plus Do you know how long it would take to go through and try to match scripts to make sure there is nothing else already written like it..
it's imposable to check something like that... As this person in the article below has said , you would be laughed right back at.
Interesting article i found a few months back, i forget where it came from, when i read it i finally found someone that has a little knowledge of knowing it's very hard to actually get scripts copyrighted. Although that dose not go without saying that isn't possible.
So basically his first paragraph is my point,
Although i think others that may be new to java would find the rest interesting and good to know if they already did not.
And all though it may be possible to actually get a copyright, It seems that it would be very hard and not even worth the effort?
Well it's a hard one to chew on.
It seems people get this miraculous idea that they can write a script, put a copyright line in it and actually think they own it,The Same thing with people that write CSS html and other various coding. It's almost imposable to get a copyright on such scripting or coding as this.
Scripts and codes are nothing but a computer language developed for the computer to read, what one person may write one way, another person can write another way to do the same exact thing, Plus it's all been done before somewhere already. If anyone would own anything it's the very people that invented java and other coding, and that can not be labeled to just one source nor person.. this has been developing for years.
This is not coding for software developments of which you can get a patten and own or sell your software, it's standard java,html,jquery php or whatever else for web pages. It's very hard to get a copyright on things such as this, why? because just about everything is all the same way anyway.. I dont care who writes or modifies what.. It's international computer language for the computer to read and function for what the script was written for... nothing more nothing less,
Now if your talking about images, slogans, music, video or some other source of media or pattens that are implemented for use within a code ,then thats a whole new ball game. And all material things as in the small list above can be copyrighted. That kind of goes without saying,
But scripts are scripts, It would not matter if Stephen Hawkins him self written it, anyone can learn it, anyone can do it, anyone can use it. It would not so much be what kind of scripting it is, it would be if there are any copyrighted materials that are some how implemented into any coding.. Or other software programs, Like for example. Lets say you are very smart and came up with a way to write your own script like photoshop and using real phoptoshop elements developed by Adobe, well that would be a big NO NO.
Plus Do you know how long it would take to go through and try to match scripts to make sure there is nothing else already written like it..
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Interesting article i found a few months back, i forget where it came from, when i read it i finally found someone that has a little knowledge of knowing it's very hard to actually get scripts copyrighted. Although that dose not go without saying that isn't possible.
- Spoiler:
- Protecting the source of your scripts
Oh dear. This is just not possible. Many people make futile attempts to do so, but to be honest, there is no point in trying. In fact, in many developers' opinions, there is no such thing as copyright with JavaScript, although it is theoretically possible. The point with copyright and patents is that you can only copyright or patent something completely new, a new innovation, something that has not been done or written before. You can almost guarantee that nothing you do with JavaScript will be a new innovation or even newly written. Someone will have done it before, almost certainly using the exact same algorithm with just a few variable names changed. JavaScript is just not designed for innovative programming since it just uses APIs designed by someone else to do what you are doing, and they already came up with it before you in order to invent the API. Even if you write something in a "new" way, it will still be doing something that has already been done, and if you did attempt to take things too far and take the matter to court, you would just be laughed back out of it again.
As for protecting what you send, JavaScript is passed in text, not compiled to a binary first, so the code is always visible. How can you stop people seeing the source when you are sending the source to each viewer? Let me walk through the problem.
If the source of the JavaScript is held in the page you are viewing, a simple "view source" will show you the script. Looking in the browser's cache will show the scripts that are in header files. Of course you need to check the source first to find the name of the header file.
Many developers have spotted the fact that both of these methods require the "view source" to be available, so they prevent the viewer from viewing the source. They do this by preventing the context menu from appearing when the user right clicks and by removing menus by using window.open etc. Believe me, both of these are useless. You cannot stop right clicks in all browsers (even in some where you can, the user can prevent scripts from blocking it). So some people try to prevent these browsers from viewing the page by using browser sniffing. This is equally ineffective. All the viewer has to do is switch off script when they get to the page, or view the source of previous pages to find the location of the protected page. In addition, Opera, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer are all capable of running user scripts that allow the user to override restrictions made by the page.
Some people even try to make sure that the page is only delivered if a referrer header is sent to make sure that the user came from the right page, and is not attempting to type in a location manually. So the user can use Curl, a program that allows them to request a page with referrer header, cookies, form fields etc., and save the download to a text file.
Some people try to encode the script using charCodeAt or escape, but as the decoding technique is provided in the page, only simple modifications are required to make the script appear in text, not as embedded script. I have seen one set of scripts that have been "protected" by changing their variable names to completely incomprehensible names, and adding several redundant lines of incompressible code and removing all redundant spaces and linebreaks. It does not take too much work to turn this back into understandable code.
You may want to protect your code, but it simply is not possible. Someone who is determined will be able to find it out.
So basically his first paragraph is my point,
Although i think others that may be new to java would find the rest interesting and good to know if they already did not.
And all though it may be possible to actually get a copyright, It seems that it would be very hard and not even worth the effort?