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From: bryan@ihuxf.UUCP (Bryan K. DeLaney)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Copyright laws out-dated ?
Message-ID: <2144@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 15:00:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 11 15:00:02 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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I read somewhere that object code technically does not fall under
the copyright laws. Has this ever been put to test in a court
decision (out of court settlements don't count)?  
The reason being that object code is not the work of the author, 
but the work of a machine, and that you can not transform the
object code back into the source.

					ihuxf!bryan
					AT&T Bell Laboatores

p.s. Maybe the copyright laws need to be upated ?