On Monday 21 November 2005 22:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Maybe yes, maybe not. If the law (mind, no such law exists yet as far as I know) decides not to take into account such things as author wishes/rights on behalf of the society needs, it wouldn't matter what the author thought/thinks.
I think this is all quite hypothetical. Given the nature of law, absolutely anything is *possible* - it just needs enough judges laying down enough precedents and a failure of challenges to it for something to become law. AFAIK, you can't currently force an author to make their work public, and should that be true that's all that matters right now. The example of the company having endless critical docs in a proprietary format really just says two things: it's a good lesson for a company nowadays to be using an open format, and there's a market for programmers that can reverse-engineer file formats. J.C. -- John Coldrick www.axyzfx.com Axyz Animation 416-504-0425 425 Adelaide St W Toronto, ON Canada jc@axyzfx.com M5V 1S4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful -- Frederick Locker-Lampson