Re: What makes software copyrightable anyway?

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

Raul Miller wrote:

> On 5/12/05, Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br> wrote:
>  
>
> > I will do my "repeated assertion" act: It's a dynamically linked
> > executable, for the love of $DEITY!
> >    
>
> Which makes it a collective work.  Collective works can be eligible 
> for copyright protection, even if the only creative effort that went
> into them is the selection and arrangement of their contents.
>  
DY-NA-MI-CA-LLY. It does not contain any part of any other work. How can 
it be a collective work?

> You can argue that hello_world is insufficiently creative to
> be eligible for copyright protection, but that argument can't
> hold in the general case.
>  
No, I was considering hello_world sufficiently creative for the sake of 
argument.