On 8/4/2012 11:22, andrel wrote:
>> available through their private (paid) service. Registering a copyright and
>> providing open access are add-on costs for the author.
>
> I thought that even the USA had gone over to the sensible system that
> everything one writes is automatically copyrighted.

We did, in 1974 or so, IIRC. That doesn't mean it's registered. That just 
means it's copyrighted.

>> I'll shell out the bucks for the copyright since my thesis has immediate
>> commercial applications and I don't want one company monopolizing it.
>
> I don't see how a copyright could help here.

Only to the extent it allows him to prevent someone else from monopolizing 
the copying.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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