<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#351c75"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:30 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Someone please explain to me:</div><div style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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 style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have read the article on wikipedia but could not really understand it: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Software_copyright</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Copyright isn't just based an artistic works, but on the more general idea that a pattern required creativity. So a pile of rocks you found on the ground is the wrong idea, but a rock garden you carefully arranged is the right idea. It's the arrangement, fixed in a medium, that gets protection.</div><div><br></div><div>Software is a file made out of utilitarian parts, but arranged in a creative way. All of the value is in the creative pattern of common elements. If the pattern is wrong, the computer doesn't function. If the pattern is right, the computer can function beautifully. Most people can't arrange the symbols correctly; doing so requires an injection of creativity, which is what copyright protects.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,28,117)">So, you are confirming that copyright on software is based on a very far stretch of the concept of creativity. That is my interpretation too, which shifts it from being a rational thought to a rationalization, or as I like to describe, a lame excuse for controlling content.</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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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