Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!jcp@BRL-TGR.ARPA From: jcp@BRL-TGR.ARPA (Joe Pistritto) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: definitions (trade secret, copyright, etc.) and the courts Message-ID: <9059@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 22:23:49 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.9059 Posted: Thu Mar 7 22:23:49 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:23:50 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 13 I think that a strong case can be made for the inclusion of object in the same catagory as source re trade secret protection, in that the object can be considered an encoded version of the source. This sort of thing is used to protect visual material when broadcast electronically, even if the broadcast is scrambled in some way. I once heard of a case where a small television cable outfit was recording the scrambled broadcasts of a Pay-TV service, decoding them used a decode they built themselves to 'recover' the original programming, and rebroadcasting without permission. You could view the object of a program and disassembly in much the same way. -JCP-