Re: Web application licenses
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Nobody has ever tried to extend the copyright of a program to
> include output produced when running the program.
If no one has tried, it's because it's quite trivial to contruct a
case where a program's output is copyrightable and covered by the
copyright of the program.
Consider a script that calls imagemagick to create an copyrightable
image steming entirely from information contained in the script. Or a
LaTeX "program" for that matter.
Don Armstrong
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