Re: What makes software copyrightable anyway?

[Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br>]

Raul Miller wrote:

> On 5/11/05, Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br> wrote:
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> > 2.a. it specifies (art. 7, XII) that computer programs are protected
> >    
> by
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> > copyrights.
> >
> > 2.b. it further specifies (art. 7 § 1) that computer programs have
> > specific legal provisions (all contained, nowadays, in our Computer
> > Programs Law [Lei 9609/98]).
> >    
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> But, presumably, binaries are still considered to be derived from their
> sources?
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>  
Nope. Binaries are the same work as (the anthology of) their sources, in 
the eye of the Law 9609/98.

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Massa