Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this about Google imbedding java in their operating system on phones ?
Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On May 3, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > I always bristle at the use of the word copyright as a verb (all of the > dictionaries do support the verb form) and try never to use it that way > myself, although it is easy to slip. > > Historically, perhaps you could "copyright something," as John's Shakespeare > perhaps did. > > Now, in the US and most nations (Berne convention) copyright is a noun that > inures automatically to authors upon fixing the work in a tangible form. > > You can't copyright (verb) something. You either own the copyright (noun) or > you do not. The work is copyright (adjective) or it is not. > > You can (optionally) REGISTER the copyright with the Library of Congress, > but that's a different matter. > > Not to argue in the least with the substance of John's post ... > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of John Gilmore > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 7:17 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Programming languages can't have copyright protection, EU court > rules > > Charles Mills has made the operative distinction very clear, but let me try > another analogy. > > Think of yourself, briefly, as Shakespeare. > > You have written Sonnet XXX, > > When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I sigh the lack of many a thing > I sought. > > Then can I . . . > . . . > > You, Shakespeare, may copyright this sonnet, its specific content. > You may not copyright the fourteen-line sonnet form and its rhyming scheme. > > Instances of a schema are copyrightable and protectable. The schema itself > is not. You may, that is, protect yourself against the misappropriation of > a sonnet that you write. You may not interdict the writing of > [non-duplicative] sonnets by others. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
