Lynn wrote:
> An excellent point. AFAIK, the vast realm of mathmatics has not yet been
> co-opted as "Intellectual Property." ;-)
Not exactly, but once they're translated to computer code, they can be
protected IIRC. For an example, see the DeCSS code used to decrypt DVD
movies. The judge ruled that any program code which executes the DeCSS
algorithm, and which can be compiled and executed *directly*, is proprietary
IP of the motion picture industry.
Thus there are t-shirts, GIF images, etc. with representations of the code,
and they're all legal, because they're not directly-executable program code.
But the C source code to DeCSS, or an executable built with it, is not.
I know, this is OT...
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