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I think it would be beneficial for code (for software that's published) to be subject to these laws, too. Any one know why such laws apply to art but not to cod
by ignoramous 6y ago
I think it would be beneficial for code (for software that's published) to be subject to these laws, too. Any one know why such laws apply to art but not to code?
- shp0ngle 6y agoWell, is there code from 1925?
- robin_reala 6y agoThere’s definitely code from earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr...
- shp0ngle 6y agoAnd I think that is, indeed, in Public Domain.
- ignoramous 6y agoPublic Domain laws vary by country. In India, works published 60 years ago enter public domain.
- syshum 6y agoDont worry I am sure an International Treaty will come along to lock that in to the 95+ year "standard" we seem to be driving to globally After all India was all set for the TPP, and it included those copyright provisions...
- robin_reala 6y agoThey do apply to code too.
- ghaff 6y agoAs robin_reala indicated, they do. This wasn't clear for along time and it didn't really matter because computer companies bundled software with their hardware; it wasn't something that anyone was particularly interested in selling independently. But this started to change and, over time, it was established that copyright did apply to software. (One reason why copyright might not have applied to software is that it's "just" a set of instructions. We're seeing this argument repeated at some level with the Google-Oracle tiff over APIs.)