On 02/03/2020 04:02, admin_at_wavestarinteractive.com admin_at_wavestarinteractive.com wrote: > While it would be a rather unusual case but so does schematics are copyrightable much like architectural or engineering blueprints. AFAICT that isn't or wasn't necessarily true. https://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-off-topic-discussions/12775-copyright-circuit-boards-legal-discussion.html <https://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-off-topic-discussions/12775-copyright-circuit-boards-legal-discussion.html> The photo graph workround that was suggested in the thread is ridiculous. While I can copyright a picture I have taken and you must pay me to use it. There is nothing stopping anyone from taking an identical photograph. I don't automatically gain exclusive copyright for anything that I take a picture of. Trademark and patent (plus any booby traps you throw in for good measure) would be the way you protected against people copying your masks and pcbs. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Z80proj/Z80_traps.pdf <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Z80proj/Z80_traps.pdf> for some examples of traps used to prevent people ripping off the design.Received on 2020-05-30 01:11:15
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