My Old Notes About Registering a Copyright for Code

Software is a literary form, it is registered using form TX.

Trade Secrets

Include a cover letter, a picture of a screen display, and 20 pages (first 10 and last 10) with no blackouts.

Cover Letter:

To Whom it May Concern,

Enclosed is the copyright registration form TX for a software program entitled "Software Title". This computer program contains trade secrets and therefore the deposit includes the first 10 and last 10 pages of the code without any sections blacked out. The computer program in its entirity is over X pages long. Included in the deposit are critical and unique components of the code significant enough to identify.

No Trade Secrets

Include 50 pages of the code with no blackouts.

By Albert on January 10, 2010 3:23 PM