[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: Nagios plugins in use with UP.Time possibly?

[Paul L. Allen]

Ethan Galstad writes: 

> BTW, for those who aren't aware, you cannot file a copyright violation 
> suit in court without first having officially registered it with the 
> Copyright Office. 

Untrue in most countries which are signatories to the Berne Convention.
True of the US if the origin of the work is the US but untrue of the
US if the origin of the work is a signatory country other than the US. 

Uptime is headquarted in Canada.  Canada is a signatory to the Berne
Convention.  A guick dig on google leads to: 

   "No formalities are required in order for a work to be protected under
   the Copyright Act.  Protection is provided automatically as soon as
   the work is created and fixed in any material form. 

   Canada grants the same protection to foreign works in accordance with
   national treatment principles set out in the Berne Convention for the
   Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, which Canada signed in 1928.
   The basic principle underpinning the Convention is that all member
   states must give authors from other member states the same copyright
   protection they provide their own authors." 

IANAL, but it looks to me like a case filed in a Canadian court would
be successful even if you hadn't registered your copyright in the US. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support