11-06-2017, 03:30 PM
I'm making an assumption here that you intend to publish something like a book/cd package. In the case of self publishing copyrights can be established by literary material that simply has an unchallenged early publication date, or is copyrighted upon initial publication by a publisher. The WWW makes implied copyright establishment fairly easy to accomplish. Your work appears on a given date read online over time by many people (use traffic counters) and the copyright is implied (under US law) enough so that it prevents other publishers from publishng your work without your permission, but the caveat is that your only recourse to challenge infringement would be in US courts.
Philosophically cd copy protection is not acceptable to the open source community, and essentially it is impracticle to begin with, as Linux users with some skill can can easily copy any content from cds using Linux tools anyway. If I were you I would soncern myself with a US copyright if this is literary material and not worry about a copy protected cd, and/or get Callibre from Lite software and publish in E-book form, or even easier use Amazon's e-book publication system.
Copy protect on a removable disk is a waste of your efforts and can backfire on you when disks don't work correctly for those who actually purchase your literary product. If you are paranoid about it use encryption instead and sell the key with the book. Less of a pain for purchasers. The Amazon solution is one of the simplest and safest ways to self publish. There are also now many new small technical media/literary publishers because of the Amazon solution who can help you with self publication. Still... for berginners Amazon's E-book is the first best solution.
TC
Philosophically cd copy protection is not acceptable to the open source community, and essentially it is impracticle to begin with, as Linux users with some skill can can easily copy any content from cds using Linux tools anyway. If I were you I would soncern myself with a US copyright if this is literary material and not worry about a copy protected cd, and/or get Callibre from Lite software and publish in E-book form, or even easier use Amazon's e-book publication system.
Copy protect on a removable disk is a waste of your efforts and can backfire on you when disks don't work correctly for those who actually purchase your literary product. If you are paranoid about it use encryption instead and sell the key with the book. Less of a pain for purchasers. The Amazon solution is one of the simplest and safest ways to self publish. There are also now many new small technical media/literary publishers because of the Amazon solution who can help you with self publication. Still... for berginners Amazon's E-book is the first best solution.
TC
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