Re: [d@DCC] C-36 thoughts

From: "tOM Trottier" <Tom _-at-_ Abacurial.com>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:58:37 -0400
References: <459F05C5CBAB824BB3DD965CC92BBFEA01721D34@swan.spectrumsignal.com>

This would be a good time to ask for it, at least for major releases, including 
notes on which releases of which software tools are used to construct.

I recall vaguely that there is a regulation for computer programs that the 
"first" 25 pages of source code should be deposited.

After all, the rational for patents is that it advances the art by making new 
innovations public!

tOM

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 9:15
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca <discuss@digital-copyright.ca> wrote:

> 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.
> -- 
> Matthew Skala
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