RE: [dvd-discuss] Bunner wins DeCSS trade secret appeal

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:34 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Bunner wins DeCSS trade secret appeal
> 
> 
> Picky 
> Picky 
> Picky 
> 
> ;-) 
> 
>  <as I attempt to restrain my snickering>...Now lets consider this 
> hypothetical....
> 
> As Jeme has pointed out <repeatedly!>, if the sting of "1"s 
> and "O"s are 
> NOT expressing ideas, then they also CANNOT be copyrighted either, 
> seemingly this court agrees.  Now...lets add a little more to 
> this line of 
> argumentation. Take waht TWI just put forth down under- DVD are 
> "software". Obviously it's not source code but little "1"s 
> and "Os"....So 
> TWI has just presented a legal argument that EVERYTHING they 
> release on 
> DVD is not copyrighted. A good question is how the courts try 
> to deal with 
> that problem. 
> 

Ouch!  That makes just too much sense!

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!