23 Dec 08 Apple Has Invalid Mac OS Copyright According to Apple
The Apple vs Psystar saga is far from being over. Psystar has mounted an offence after its last attempt to countersuit Apple was shut down a while ago. This time Psystar is claiming that Apple does not own the US rights to protect the Mac OS X and therefore the lawsuit shouldn’t even exist.
Psystar says that Apple didn’t go through the regular steps and procedures to register the copyright for Mac OS X. Without the copyright thing, which is really important, Apple can’t sue Psystar. Nobody else either for that matter.
Will this hold in court? It looks like Apple has at least a disc and a manual copyright for Mac OS X Leopard which was published on the same day the OS was launched, October 26th, 2007. And the US Copyright Office says so. How will Apple respond? We’ll see after the holidays.
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If I remember correctly, the copyright registration is not mandatory in the US. As long as you’ve put something out with the copyright symbol and the date (or year) – it’s valid. It’s more difficult to prove that you own the copyright without the registration, but it’s not impossible.
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