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Saturday, December 27, 2003

CSS: Copyrightable?. Yesterday's post began with a soliloquy on the relative ease of theft that comes along with standards-based design. This is an issue I'm deeply concerned about, for obvious reasons. I've had to tackle some hard questions head on when it... [mezzoblue]

An interesting discussion about the coyrightability of a CSS. FWIW, I think that any given CSS can be copyrighted. It is, after all, a creation that directly creates or influences the distinct layout of a website. This is not trivial. A CSS may also be considered to be protected under copyright as an intergal part of the complete website, which is definitely afforded copyright protection.

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Creator of Linux Defends Its Originality. Linus Torvalds, creator of the popular Linux operating system, defended his work as not always lovely but original and certainly not copied, as the SCO Group has asserted. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]
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Novell Registers Unix Copyrights. Novell has quietly registered for the copyrights on many versions of Unix code that the SCO Group says it owns. By Laurie J. Flynn. [New York Times: Technology]
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Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs. Families and employers are adopting surveillance technology once used mostly to track soldiers and prisoners. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
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