Dale Scheetz wrote: > It isn't clear to me that it does. I am still looking for some expert > copyright lawyer to give me some guidance on these issues, but that hasn't > been easy. I made a comment to an environmental lawyer I know, and his > first response was,"Your can't copyright software, you must patent it.". > I, of course, immediately threw up in his lap ;-)
That reminds me of the case a few months ago, about export of encryption software, where the judge ruled that software was a device, not speech. If it's a device, then obviously you can't copyright it, but must patent it :-) I don't know where that case went, but I hope it ends up with a definite decision either way. If software is ruled to be speech, then that can be used as a good precedent to disallow software patents. Richard Braakman
