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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by eurleif on Friday March 23, 2012 @12:36AM (#3743719)
> First, backend website code is not protected by copyright because it's not published

Unpublished works are protected by copyright. http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by smsm42 on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:57PM (#3746331)
But wouldn't you need to distribute for copyright protection to kick in? Copyright is exclusive right to distribute. If you just stole the code and keep it, you can be liable to various crimes, but I don't see how copyright infringement can be one of them.
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