French copyright, a subgroup of Intellectual Property, is enshrined in the Constitution. It applies automatically, without any formality, from the creation of an original work.
From the moment you create a work of the mind:
1. You immediately acquire the status of author, and the panoply of rights that go with it, no deposit or mention is necessary
2. These rights are made up of two families: moral rights and economic rights.
E.g. moral rights allow you to complain if someone tampers with your work in an unfair manner.
Is a kid likely to learn better from a computer or a book? I
Bah, none of them, at least before 12. Read Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile. People seem to take more than 250 years to understand the obvious.
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God. -- J. Gustav White