Re: [d@DCC] C-36 thoughts

From: mskala _-at-_ ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:15:12 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Chris Brand wrote:
> Source code is subject to copyright anyway, right ? Doesn't that imply a
> requirement to send copies of the source anyway ?

I may have written too compellingly about sending copies to the library as
a condition for receiving copyright.  That is not the law; it's a change
to the law which I proposed as a way of making the "send copies"
requirement less threatening to freedom of expression.  As I understand
it, since source code is not usually published, it doesn't have to be sent
in (the requirement only applies to published works); and software source
code also probably doesn't fall into the current law's definition of
"book", so it probably doesn't need to be sent in at the moment even if it
*is* published.
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Matthew Skala
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                    Embrace and defend.
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