I.R.Maturana scripsit: > When using the expression "derivative work" you are including > publication/distribution: That is: you read my phrase as if I was > describing a "published-distributed-derivative" work".
No, I understand you correctly, but you are simply in error. The U.S. copyright law speaks of "preparing" derivative works as a right reserved to the author. It does not speak of "distributing" or "publishing" them. > While the transformed work is not made publicly available, > an author cannot forbid transformation. This would be an absurd. Absurd or not, it is the law. > For this same reason, he cannot forbid the _translation_ of his > work. (Can you believe seriously that States will adhere to a > Convention that allows authors to forbid translation of works ? I do seriously believe it; in fact, I know it is so. > BTW, the actual attempt to adopt Software patents arise because > companies have discovered that they were unable to forbid > the reverse engineering. They cannot sue anybody for this. Patents are not copyrights; the rules are entirely different. In particular, there is AFAIK no international patent law at all. > I suppose you are a lawyer. I am only studying these laws since 1998. I am not a lawyer. -- John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
