And such a copyright protects you from someone using your work of art in its original form. If someone copies the idea or does an interpretation then their work is a new piece of art and they own the copyright for their new art.
In the case of a real cartoon (the area i'm familiar with regards to copyrights) if I draw a cartoon and you photocopy it and put it on t-shirts then i'm protected by copyright laws. If you draw your own version of it (no matter how good it is) and put it on t-shirts then i'm not covered. I'm not sure how that transfers over to generated code... I did have a (crazy) idea for a program that outputs every combination of 1's and 0's to a floppy disk. Given there is a finite number of combinations that can go onto a disk, that means that my program can "write" any program at all, given enough time. So once I release my program, anyone who publishes a program on a floppy disk after I have released my program, I can sue them because they used my program to write theirs. I've not tested this idea so your milage may vary. :) cheers, Stephen On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, PhilB <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that anything you write is considered a work of art and > is hence considered copyrighted to you. > If you created a screen design with associated event code then this is > definitely your copyright, even though you may have used part of it from > another source (eg CodeProject.com). > I believe that this is the case even when you do custom software for a > paying customer. > > If you were an artist who was engaged to paint a portrait of somebody who > later became famous, the painting may become valuable and be owned by > somebody. However I believe that they cannot copy it without your > permission. > > If you pay to get house plans drawn up for you, you only own the ability to > show them to other people. > If you wanted to get the Autocad or Revitt source file then you would have > to ask very nicely and you may indeed be refused even though you have paid > for the design. > > Having said that there are many countries that do not recognise > international copyright law. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Wright > Sent: Monday, 1 February 2010 1:55 AM > To: [email protected]; 'ausDotNet' > Subject: Code generation and copyright > > Hi all, > > Possibly stupid middle of the night question: > > I'm interested in knowing if anyone knows how copyright applies to code > generation. I'm talking about the code that gets produced, not the tool > itself. > > Of course each piece of generated code will be unique based on any unique > inputs to whatever template you select. Is that what makes it yours? > > I know people will probably make assumptions because we all do it - however > has anyone actually looked at what the implications of this is? > > Regards, > Tony > > >
