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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: DownSouth who wrote (15134)1/14/2000 1:03:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
Copyright and programs are a very murky area with marked differences in judgements depending on the district. There have been rulings that look and feel is copyright, possibly the only part that is copyright, since it is the part visible to the user. Clearly, it is dangerous to copy look and feel, but all of the Microsoft, Apple, Xerox bit makes it anything but a slam dunk. As for the source code, rulings span the gamut from only protecting direct copies to others where it was considered infringement because the overall flow and algorithm was similar, even though it was written in a very different language. No one in this business relies on copyright to protect source code as a primary protection. Instead, they rely on trade secrets protection and keeping it secure.
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