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From: dan@idis.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Protection of ideas?
Message-ID: <306@idis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 16:15:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 16:15:36 1984
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I believe that if you could prove that someone had translated your
copyrighted work into a different language, you could claim the
translation was an illegal derivative work.  The hard part would be
demonstrating to a bunch on non-programmers (e.g. judges) how the
language had changed but the general form of the expression of the
idea had not changed.