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Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record
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Tim Smith |
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Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:39:22 -0700 |
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In article <8_Qxk.3001$dE1.2617@fe109.usenetserver.com>,
Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> > You got a bad case of slandries.
>
> From <http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080909014304275>,
> quoting from the decision:
>
> By condensing, synthesizing, and reorganizing the preexisting
> material in an A-to-Z reference guide, the Lexicon does not
> recast the material in another medium to retell the story of
> Harry Potter, but instead gives the copyrighted material another
> purpose. That purpose is to give the reader a ready understanding
> of individual elements in the elaborate world of Harry Potter
> that appear in voluminous and diverse sources. As a result, the
> Lexicon no longer "represents [the] original work[s] of
> authorship." 17 U.S.C. ยง 101. Under these circumstances, and
> because the Lexicon does not fall under any example of derivative
> works listed in the statute, Plaintiffs have failed to show that
> the Lexicon is a derivative work.
>
> Look at this, and then tell me that a court will find that a program
> which dynamically links to a library is a derivative work of that
> library.
Or look at the unauthorized game cartridge cases. Those are directly on
point for the "linking makes a derivative work" argument, and the courts
have pretty uniformly decided that they are not derivative works.
--
--Tim Smith
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/06
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/07
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/09
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/09
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/09
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/09
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/09
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/09
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record,
Tim Smith <=
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rjack, 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Moshe Goldfarb., 2008/09/10
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/11
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rjack, 2008/09/11
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/09/09
Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/19