Re: What makes software copyrightable anyway?

["Michael K. Edwards" <m.k.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 5/12/05, Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br> wrote:
> Anyway, I was not talking about distributing the "working" hello_world
> (if you are referring to the working set of it in RAM, after loaded --
> after all, this is the only thing that "performs" when a file is dynalinked)

Note also that all of the early precedents in the US with respect to
run-time copyright infringement, unauthorized computer maintenance,
etc. have been supplanted by 17 USC 117.  Run-time copies are
unreachable by copyright infringement claims in the US.

Cheers,
- Michael