11 Jul
2006
11 Jul
'06
8:07 p.m.
On 7/10/06, Philip Baker <phil@thalasson.com> wrote:
Simply using the DDS does not necessarily require making a copy of any DDS specification. To give an analogy. You don't breach copyright by following the diet presented a diet book.
But following a diet is a personal action that doesn't fix anything in a permanent format. Using the DDS to categorize a library is to create something in physical permanent form, that basically embodies the system in such a way that the system could more or less be extracted from our catalog. That's a whole different issue, and I think a judge might well rule in favor of them on it. It is, IMO, creating a legally actionable deriviative work.