<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,28,117)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Matt Maier </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:blueback09@gmail.com" target="_blank">blueback09@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Wouter,</div><div>Are you really sure that the decorative aspects of OSHW designs are enough to extend copyright protection to the whole object? </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not at all confident that's possible (or desirable). </div><div><br></div><div>Here's an example:</div><div><a href="http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/unprotected.html" target="_blank">http://www.bitlaw.com/<wbr>copyright/unprotected.html</a></div><div>"<em>a painting on the side of a truck is protectable                               under copyright law even though the truck is a useful article. The painting is clearly                          separable from the utilitarian aspects of the truck.  The overall shape of the truck, on the                            other hand, would not be copyrightable since the shape is an essential part of the truck's                          utility...One of the primary purposes for prohibiting copyright protection in useful articles is to                             prevent the granting of patent-like protection through the copyright laws</em>"</div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,28,117)">​Someone please explain to me:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,28,117)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,28,117)">With all these restrictions about copyright being applied to artistic but not utilitarian aspects of the creation, how is it that it fully applies to computer software, which is often a fully functional creation?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,28,117)">I have read the article on wikipedia but could not really understand it: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright</a>​</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Cláudio "Patola" Sampaio<br>MakerLinux Labs - Campinas, SP<br></div><div><a href="mailto:patola@gmail.com" target="_blank">Gmail</a> - <a href="mailto:patola@techtraining.eng.br" target="_blank">Mail EAD</a> - <a href="mailto:patola@makerlinux.com.br" target="_blank">MakerLinux</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/makerlinux" target="_blank">YOUTUBE</a>!<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/patolinux" target="_blank">Facebook</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/makerlinux" target="_blank">Facebook da MakerLinux</a> -<a href="http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4763932Z5" target="_blank"> Lattes</a><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B8WZj6JJHZDwbmhXNWR6OXlOVDg&revid=0B8WZj6JJHZDwSDhEekpVU2k5K1J4VVdzb1NKU1pKWHZ2NFprPQ"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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