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To expand on that idea, purely functional expressions are not copyrightable in the first place. How and when software becomes copyrightable is undefined in law
by randombits0 5y ago
To expand on that idea, purely functional expressions are not copyrightable in the first place. How and when software becomes copyrightable is undefined in law.
- Retr0id 5y agoWhy not? Do you have a reference for that?
- kbutler 5y agoUS Copyright law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102 (b)In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. Thus, if it is simply the description of the algorithm to accomplish a process, it isn't copyrightable (functional processes are the domain of patent law, not copyright). But creative ways of describing an idea or process could be copyrighted... Further discussion https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf https://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/software/protection/ https://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/software/protection/
- randombits0 5y agoI, too, miss GrokLaw…