On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. > > the output is not a work derived from the compiler.
Finally we've come to the critical point. It doesn't really matter if you're dealing with a public performance or not. All that matters is whether or not the output is a work derived from the program. For some compilers, it might be. For others, possibly not. Don Armstrong -- [A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the class of its potential falsifiers is not empty. -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
