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Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 07:10 AM EDT |
I can view a web page and see a dead parrot in a cage nailed to its perch.
Any copyright marking that I see is for the html document that produced that
page. There may be separate copyright markings for any images, trademarks or
other embedded copyright material.
The URL you gave was a link to a page that, when viewed, looked like The Java
API Specification V 5. The document is human readable software instructions (the
html) that can be executed in a browser. The copyright was for the html
document.
By law, the copyright only protects the creative expression fixated in the html
document. Any marking has to be marking in the same medium that contains the
fixated creative expression. In other words, even though it might have been
interpreted as the API when someone executed the html document in a browser, the
copyright marking is not protecting The Java API Specification V 5, even if Sun
had wanted it to.
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Regards
Ian Al
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