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On 01 Jun 2001 15:54:13 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Shirky's worry doesn't fit with my understanding of copyright. A > copyright is not a patent. A work must clearly be derived _in its > expression_, not its substance, from the original, to be an infringing > derivative. Otherwise for example no songs about, well, almost > anything, would be publishable. I guess my concern is whether the courts would interpret it that way, or whether they would find that a compatible but not-created-by-Microsoft schema was a derived work. I can see that going either way, and with current trends in copyright, I don't feel much certainty.
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