Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!orville!fouts From: fouts@orville (Marty Fouts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Copyright and BREAKOUT.ACC Message-ID: <67@ames.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 02:12:03 EST Article-I.D.: ames.67 Posted: Fri Dec 12 02:12:03 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 14:59:06 EST References: <8612051453.AA13329@ohio-state.ARPA> <674@water.UUCP> <675@water.UUCP> <486@atari.UUcp> Sender: usenet@ames.UUCP Reply-To: fouts@orville.UUCP (Marty Fouts) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA Lines: 21 In article <486@atari.UUcp> neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) writes: >Please, people, before making any rash assumptions about the law, read one >of the many books available on the subject. Which book Neil? ;-) Actually, the problem isn't quite that simply solved. The recent copyright laws, as well as changes to the patent system and other side effects of various legislative attempts to address the issues of copyright, patent, and trade secret with respect to the computer industry, have -- if anything -- made the situation more difficult to understand. Most of the current copyright law is under examination in one court or another, and if you read enough of the books, you will find that the experts don't readily agree on what it means, where it applies, or how it should be interpretted. The entire issue of intellectual property is complex and in a state of flux and recently, by the time a book has reached print, it has become out of date. (BTW who owns the Amiga blitter chip :-)