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correct. here's the physical analogy:
einstein owned the copyright to his papers on relativity, but not a
patent on e=mc2
i think that's a very fair situation, and in fact it's something
inherently understood by standards bodies and indeed the oss movement.
rick
Alan Gutierrez wrote:
>* Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@rpbourret.com> [2005-06-06 20:19]:
>
>
>>M. David Peterson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What I find interesting is that you can't just state that its because
>>>we're writing code and not working with physical objects and its
>>>because of this that our world is different. The literature world,
>>>while not dealing with patents per se', are definitely dealing with
>>>copyrights and plagiarism.
>>>
>>>
>>Not sure about the physical world, but there's a huge difference between
>>the software world and the literature world. There's a very limited
>>number of reasonable ways to loop through an array of integers and add 1
>>to each value. There's a huge number of reasonable ways to say, "The
>>lake is blue." The first shouldn't be patentable. The second should be
>>copyrightable.
>>
>>
>
> They should both be copyrightable. The loop and the phrase.
>
> They are in fact both copyrightable. Both are protected by
> copyright the moment they are fixed to a medium. Both are
> considered literary works by the U.S. Copyright Office.
>
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