"Rjack" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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You seem to have a gap in your education in regard to copyrights vs
patents vs trade secrets. The ideas contained in a copyrighted work are
not protected. So how many ways can an idea be expressed in software and
can any of them be considered an artistic work for the purposes of
copyright?
The “Abstraction, Filtration, Comparison” test has dealt a severe blow to
infringement claims for non-literal elements of software programs.
http://www.ladas.com/Patents/Computer/SoftwareAndCopyright/Softwa06.html#fn39
Exactly. Interestingly enough, there is the section on compilations and how
copyright does not typically apply if the compilation is dictated by outside
elements. The example of the telephone directory bears on Kastrup's claim
to the contrary as well. Are copyright laws so different in Europe and
elsewhere?
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