[stylist] copyrighting your work

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Insert and page down should tell you the time stamp.

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of justin
williams
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:40 PM
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How do you fine time and date stamps on windows files?

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme,
James
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:31 PM
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Hi Chris,
All files, unless someone tampers with them, are time and date stamped.
You just have to look at the listing or type in a command to get the
stamp if you want to see it.

Thanks.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Kuell
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] copyrighting your work

Hi Vejas,

In my opinion, you don't really need to copyright your work. The reason
your teacher told you this is so that, if someone else publishes your
work and says its theirs, you can prove you wrote it first. However, in
a court of law, you can prove you wrote it first by the time/date stamp
that accompanies everything you save on your computer. So what if your
computer crashes? You could be in trouble then. However, computer whizes
can retrieve almost anything from a computer, so if you really needed to
prove it, I'm sure it could be done. And I'm not sure--does anyone know
if when you save a document to a thumb drive, is it time/date stamped?

Now some people do take the time/energy/money to copyright their work,
especially if it's a novel. I've heard others actually print and mail it
to themselves, because the postal date stamp proves that they wrote it
before it was mailed (it has to remain unopened), but this seems like a
waste of time/energy/money to me.

chris



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