On Friday 17 November 2000 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The idea is that, if a program is a work, and if (as the courts have
> held, in Mai v. Peak) a program in memory meets the fixed and tangible
> requirements of copyright law, and is therefore a copy under copyright
> law, then a program linked to a library at runtime is a derivative work.
I've heard this before, but I've always dismissed it as hearsay. I will have
to look up Mai v Peak. The implications of this are mind-boggling! Does
Stephen King have rights to my brain because I've read his books and they're
now in my memory?
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David Johnson
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