[AccessD] Database Patent

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Mon Sep 10 15:24:45 CDT 2007


Only if you copied someone's code without their consent.

When we co-wrote articles, we were both compensated for our
contributions.  If you were to write an article based on code someone
posted on here, while it might be uncouth to not give credit, the code
was posted to a public forum, with no copyright restrictions.  If you
were to make money off such an article, legally, the person who wrote
the code could fight for compensation/credit, since it was copyrighted
as they wrote it.

Just like words in a story, code in a program is protected by copyright.

For i=1 to 100
	Debug.print i
Next i

That would be hard to fight for credit, just like 'The sky is blue.'
Would be hard to fight for credit.  However, a full blown function or
application is just as protected as a story.  Now, you could write a
story about a little girl and three bears.  And as long as YOU wrote the
story, with your style, thoughts, ideas, etc. it would be your story.  I
could also write about a little girl and three bears, and as long as I
wrote it, with my style, thoughts, ideas, etc. it would be MY story.  If
my story was really identical to yours, then there could be a copyright
battle.  Take movies, how many movies have identical plots, characters,
etc.  There has to be enough of it that is different otherwise it would
be plagiarism.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 1:55 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Database Patent


Where are you getting that from?  You can copyright code, in fact, as
soon
as you write it, it is copyrighted.  

========Drew, if that were true, I would be violating copyright every
time I
write an article that includes code. 

Susan H. 

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