On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Nobody has ever tried to extend the copyright of a program to > include output produced when running the program.
If no one has tried, it's because it's quite trivial to contruct a case where a program's output is copyrightable and covered by the copyright of the program. Consider a script that calls imagemagick to create an copyrightable image steming entirely from information contained in the script. Or a LaTeX "program" for that matter. Don Armstrong -- "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
