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Re:Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of... by rdtsc on Saturday February 04, 2017 @08:20PM (#13570185)
That is an interesting point.

Moreover, I am wondering, just for cases like these, if a company could make their output copy-writable on purpose. They could insert code or content in the output just to be able to claim copyright on the output not because they need to.

Think of a nightmare scenario if say Java compiled code would not include just bytecode but bits of JVM meshed together with the bytecode. Then Oracle could come after everyone compiling and selling java programs.

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Re:Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of... by bonzini on Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:46AM (#13571511)
> Then Oracle could come after everyone compiling and selling java programs.

... without a license from Oracle to redistribute those bits. The point in the lawsuit of this post is that the software was pirated.

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Re:Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of... by rdtsc on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:43AM (#13572814)
I was talking in general about making output of programs a copywrite of programs' owners. That is what they tried to claim ultimately here in a desperate attempt.
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