Qt/Embedded

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Sat Nov 18 01:29:20 UTC 2000


On Friday 17 November 2000 01:20 am, kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> The idea is that, if a program is a work, and if (as the courts have
> held, in Mai v. Peak) a program in memory meets the fixed and tangible
> requirements of copyright law, and is therefore a copy under copyright
> law, then a program linked to a library at runtime is a derivative work.

I've heard this before, but I've always dismissed it as hearsay. I will have 
to look up Mai v Peak. The implications of this are mind-boggling! Does 
Stephen King have rights to my brain because I've read his books and they're 
now in my memory?

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David Johnson
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