"Derivative Work" for Software Defined

[David Johnson]

On Monday 06 January 2003 08:57 pm, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:

>..."in order to gain an understanding of the unprotected
> functional elements of the program"...

By stating "unprotected functional elements", the court has ruled that such 
beasties actually exist! It implies that functionality is different from the 
copyrightable expression. Since a system/function call only accesses the 
functionality, it should be permitted.

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