How do i obtain copyright for my source code?

Question

I have done few projects based on .NET technology. I suspect few members of my project team using the source code written by me for their personal profit. I want to obtain a copyright of my source code. I am an Indian. What should I do? Plz help me!

Answer 1

Do you live in India?



If so you need an attorney to file - now you know what it feels like to be in the music and movie business....

Answer 2

by writing the code, you automatically have the copyright of the code. no one else can take it from you. (i don't know specifics about indian law, but this is a worldwide rule).



there's the exception, if you're writing code for a company. then the company is the copyright owner, and not you.



if you have the copyright to code which they are using, you can of course tell them to stop - in this case, a lawyer might be helpful.

Answer 3

in case you replace it purely so some distance as making it appear as if yours, that is unlawful. If that is interior the first public area, examine the license. you may properly be allowed to apply it for "any purpose" - that would desire to intend what it says, inclusive of changing the show to place your call on it and merchandising it. Or it might desire to be extra restrictive (which it maximum in all risk is), wherein case you would be in violation in case you violated it. changing wording, deleting areas and putting your call on a software isn't seen including something to it, so the unique copyright proprietor nonetheless owns the copyright to your version. (in case you alter - upload to or adjust, not delete from - the unique code, you carry the copyright to the areas you wrote - the unique copyright holder nonetheless holds the copyright to something.)