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Re: A question of copyright law an how it affects web templatesby dragonchild (Archbishop) |
on Feb 18, 2002 at 17:31 UTC ( [id://146180]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
While not an expert (or anything else!) in law and its application to the computer world, I would hazard that copyright law does not currently take into account the difference between form and function, at least not in terms of the WWW.
The line at the bottom is, I suspect, an attempt to assert rights that may not have been fully clarified by the courts. There's a lot of brouhaha right now concerning form vs. content and whether or not different forms demand different copyright law. For example, look at the "fair use" provisions allowable for a copy of a book in paper form vs. a copy of that same book in eBook form. With the former, you have full "fair use" rights, but with the latter, you have none, including "photocopying for educational purposes". (q.v. DMCA for relevant subsections.) Is that applicable? I dunno. That's for the courts to decide. ------ Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.
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