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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: The REAL scoop on the "Gameboy Emulator"
Message-ID: <00671246704@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 01:25:04 GMT
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From article <1443@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>, by ifarqhar@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar):
> I'd like to see a legal argument on this Jez, as it is not clear from
> the information I have read that unattributed works are in fact
> copyrightable.  Besides, didn't you say that this was a *derivative*

"Works-in-progress" are always copyrighted while under construction. If
someone swipes an unfinished manuscript from your office, you're indeed
protected by the copyright laws. Even if you haven't worked on that
manuscript for two years (due to massive case of writer's block, or simply
because that manuscript didn't "work"). Otherwise, somebody could break
into your house, steal something, and publish it without fear of recourse.
Not a problem for you, perhaps. But some people would pay to publish
Stephen King's grocery list, much less the unfinished works, false starts,
etc. in his "trunk", and the law provides protection.

Jez San specifically said that this was an incomplete experiment that his
folks were working on, that got swiped from his office. Sounds pretty
clear-cut to me. Here in the States, at least. Dunno about there in Oz.

> Happens all the time, and it is the company's responsibility to protect
> their research.

Somebody breaks down your house door while you're gone, and steals your
silverware. It's your fault for not locking the silverware into a vault and
hiring a security guard. Right? Right? Well, that's the reasoning you're
using.

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