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The judge says 'fixed', I am changing from this point on
Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:37 AM EDT
I have used 'fixated' because I thought that was the term of the legal art.

The correct usage of fixated would be: Oracle are fixated on the idea of huge
damages from copyright infringement.

I apologise to all English speaking folk and all those who try their best to use
the language.

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Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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Thanks for your comments
Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:47 AM EDT
My remaining issue is the concept of a whole work. The whole work can be a load
of files on a CD (or, perhaps, a hard drive).

If the whole work is not published then it cannot be copied (saving industrial
espionage). If a bunch of files is published in a directory structure and it is
not made clear that it is registered as a whole collective work, has the
collective work been sufficiently fixed in a media (in a computer, as the judge
notes) to have copyright protection?

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Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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