Hi All,
Markup as such is sweat. Yet, how you mark up
can create and artistically unique work.
The area is as many have stated grey.
There may be legal precedence stating that mere markup
is sweat, yet it does, in the end, depend on the individual case.
Even a system that automatically does the mark-up for could qualify,
as their is intellectual and artist work done in designing the system and how
its output is created.
Please, do not forgett that their are enough buzz words in the laws so that
an objective decision is in the end is left to an individual judge or judges.
Whether, in the end, it is worth it, is another matter.
regards
Keith.
jim said:
> Seems to me that a human-generated HTML
> *is* a non-trivial derivative work
> since the choice of HTML coding
> *is* a human artistic effort chosen
> to make the software run well
> on one or more ebook readers
> and/or HTML browsers, and as such
> *is* creative derivative work worthy of copyright.
> IE I am arguing that writing HTML is writing "software"
> and is not just "printer's art."
it might seem that way to you...
but precedent sides against you.
legally, a ruling has been issued;
markup is sweat, not authorship...