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Re: [dvd-discuss] Bunner wins DeCSS trade secret appeal
- To: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Bunner wins DeCSS trade secret appeal
- From: Bryan Taylor <bryan_w_taylor(at)yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:53:54 -0800 (PST)
- In-Reply-To: <OF39ABEBBF.1AC97F61-ON88256AF8.00073C47@aero.org>
- Reply-To: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Sender: owner-dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
It just occured to me that the dicta about object code is completely irrelevent
to a trade secret case. Once one link of the chain breaks, the whole case goes
with it. Once the source code is published, there's no way to claim that DeCSS
in object code form from that source code misappropriates trade secrets,
because there aren't any around any more.
In other words, when one person has the source code and didn't misappropriate
it, neither the act of compiling it, nor the act of distributing the resulting
object code RESTORES trade secret status.
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