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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 06:39 PM EDT |
No, it's not more clever than some if statements; it's some if statements and
throws an exception/exceptions if it's outside the expected range. It's just
exactly what you would write if I told you to check that an index was inside a
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Authored by: PJ on Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 08:05 PM EDT |
No. Nothing. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: dio gratia on Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 08:15 PM EDT |
Functionality doesn't appear part of the equation in determining copyright
value. 17 USC § 102 - Subject matter of copyright: In general:
(b)
In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend
to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept,
principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described,
explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
Software is
protected as a literary work, and clever doesn't seem to matter.
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Authored by: dio gratia on Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 08:58 PM EDT |
All the confusion seems to come from seeing 'clever' as a synonym for
'creative', when the operative synonym in copyright appears to be 'original'.
17 USC § 102 (a) ("Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this
title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of
expression,...").[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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