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    Novell Takes on SCO, Registers Unix Copyrights

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    December 22, 2003
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      Novell Inc. on Monday confirmed reports that it has registered 11 copyrights on the Unix System V source code that is at the center of the SCO Group Inc.s legal battles with the Linux operating system.

      Novell, prompted by reports of the registrations on the Groklaw Web site, said in a statement that “it owns the copyrights in UNIX, and has applied for and received copyright registrations pertaining to UNIX consistent with that position.” Novell received the copyright registrations in September and October, a spokesman said.

      The move pits Novell against SCO with dueling copyright registrations to much of the same Unix code. Lindon, Utah-based SCO earlier in the year had filed its own registrations of Unix copyrights.

      A SCO spokesman on Monday said that Novells registrations would not alter its legal plans. Already embroiled in a suit with IBM over contract infringement, SCO has said it plans to sue at least one large Linux user over copyright infringement by mid-February. SCO on Monday also sent a new letter to some corporate Linux users that identified code it alleges infringes on its Unix copyrights.

      Read more about SCOs legal moves against corporate Linux users.

      Novell, of Provo, Utah, acquired the Unix System V code from AT&T in 1992, sold it to The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. in 1995. SCO (then named Caldera Inc.) later acquired most of Santa Cruz Operations.

      “(Novell) has registered copyrights for which they have no ownership of those products or that technology,” SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said. “It would be ludicrous for our company to not also attain the copyright when we purchased that technology.”

      Novell also released correspondence between its senior vice president and general counsel, Joseph A. LaSala, Jr., and SCO in which Novell disputes SCOs public statement about the ownership of Unix copyrights. The letters revolve around an amendment to the 1995 asset purchase agreement for Unix. Novell argues that Amendment 2 of the agreement did not transfer the copyrights, while SCO disagrees.

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      Matthew Hicks
      As an online reporter for eWEEK.com, Matt Hicks covers the fast-changing developments in Internet technologies. His coverage includes the growing field of Web conferencing software and services. With eight years as a business and technology journalist, Matt has gained insight into the market strategies of IT vendors as well as the needs of enterprise IT managers. He joined Ziff Davis in 1999 as a staff writer for the former Strategies section of eWEEK, where he wrote in-depth features about corporate strategies for e-business and enterprise software. In 2002, he moved to the News department at the magazine as a senior writer specializing in coverage of database software and enterprise networking. Later that year Matt started a yearlong fellowship in Washington, DC, after being awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship for Journalist. As a fellow, he spent nine months working on policy issues, including technology policy, in for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He rejoined Ziff Davis in August 2003 as a reporter dedicated to online coverage for eWEEK.com. Along with Web conferencing, he follows search engines, Web browsers, speech technology and the Internet domain-naming system.

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