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| Authored by: darrellb on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 09:16 PM EDT |
| Thanks! That answers my question exactly. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 04:54 AM EDT |
I demand answers!
First does a collective work or a compilation have to be fixated in a medium for
it to be copyright?
Can a collective work include amongst its items, a compilation?
Can the registration materials, of themselves, fix the extent of a copyright
collective work or a compilation? For instance, if I collate a Linux kernel,
xwindow, GNU tools and an assortment of other useful stuff, does the act of
registering the collective work by sending in a CD form my copyrightable
BlueBonnet Distribution?
In the alternative, is the creation of the CD the fixation of the copyright,
collective work? In other words, does the CD have to be the actual copyright
work rather than just a definition, list or outline of what comprises the work.
Within that registration, can sub-collective works and sub-compilations be
identified as copyrightable entities in their own right without being separately
fixated in a medium, beforehand (e.g. the compilation of APIs into a package and
the compilation of packages into a JavaSE API)? Does the registration extend
separately to all sub-elements in the registered work?
How is it possible to identify an arbitrary compilation or collective work as a
copyright protected entity during a court case when the whole work has not been
fixated in a medium as a single entity before the case begins?
(Please note that my use of Linux and Java as an example is purely fortuitous
and not related to the current case, in any way.)
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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