Re: (c) Copyright Question
Hayden,
I have a suspicion that *many* people who put "copyright <the person>" in
their code think that it means "AUTHORED BY", when what it is really
SUPPOSED to mean is that an author is restricting the RIGHT to COPY that
item, unless an individual requests & receives PERMISSION for the right to
copy it.
"copyright": means restricting the right to copy; NOT: "authored by".
Dan Moyer
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From: "Hayden McKay" <hmck1 at dodo.com.au>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: (c) Copyright Question
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> I have noticed that alot of code and libraries bare the copyright logo.
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> To my knowledge, in 99% of countries, under 'circular 61' (Computer
programs) of the 1976 Copyright Act. Copyright protection is NOT available
for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, concepts, layouts,
desighn, physical form, functions, structure, organization, format etc....
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> So my question is; how are theese peices of code legaly copyright?
> Or did the author of the code just decietfuly put the (c) logo there?
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> n.b. I'm talking about functions, algorythms etc... NOT a compliled
computer program.
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> If a 'so called' copyright function uses a Microsft Windows *.dll, then
under the same conditions the *.dll functions would be copyright to
Microsoft and the author of the 'so called' copyright function has 'no
right' to use the *.dll in his function and claim copyright for himself.
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> n.b My personal thoughts about copyright.
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> 1) After turning the word copyright upsidown, you dont really get anyware.
So if you bring the word copyright back to 40 cents then that means that 'no
one' (on this planet) has the right to do 'anything'. We all know that this
is not the case.
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> 2) Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of copyright and the court.
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> What are your views on copyright?
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