Re: RES: Where to put Open Transport Tycoon (openttd)
On 5/19/05, Raul Miller <moth.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> In other words, Palladium wasn't the copyright holder,
> and didn't even have have license.
>
> That doesn't seem very interesting.
You appear to labor under a common misconception about legal
precedents -- namely, that it is their outcome that matters rather
than the reasoning that they contain. The Palladium decision
addresses, among other things, three points of law -- whether any
literal copying is required in order to find that one work is a
derivative of another, whether a valid copyright can be obtained on a
derivative work created without license from the copyright holder on
the original, and whether a US Copyright Office Circular has any value
as a legal precedent -- that I find quite relevant to the discussion
at hand.
Cheers,
- Michael
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