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Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy


From: amicus_curious
Subject: Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:39:07 -0500


"Rjack" <user@example.net> wrote in message PMOdndFObpFRhh7UnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d@giganews.com">news:PMOdndFObpFRhh7UnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d@giganews.com...

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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