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Authorship / Copyright C# scripts?
Is there a recommended standard for placing my mark as the author into c# scripts? Like a legally recognized standard? something like
/*
Authored by Kerihobo
Copyright 2012 something blabla
www.mywebsite.com
*/
Anything like that? My aim is simply to ensure if anything happens when i collaborate with strangers that there is proof of my role.
Seems like a general coding Q. StackOverflow, etc... might be a better place to look.
Besides, in any collaboration, everyone knows the person who did the least takes all the credit. But since everyone knows that ... .
You're seeking legal help from technical forums; you'll be lucky to get better than a best guess. You are better off finding a legal site.
See copyright and Berne Convention for general advice on the law that applies to your region.
To protect your intellectual property, you need to upload the scripts to an email or a storage provider such as Google Drive. You must include a copyright notice above with it. It's advisable to use a link of the license you are using.
Forget protecting intellectual property. Just take a pay check to begin with. Any form of collaboration where you don't get paid might as well be considered volunteer work. Especially when code is involved, its very easy to remove your details from the script, and very difficult to prove that someone else didn't arrive at the same implementation to do the same job.
There is nothing wrong with putting your name at the top of a script to indicate who wrote it. But don't expect the internet at large to pay any attention to your copyright notice.
