CHAPTER 3 Copyrights on the Internet, for Software Protection and Around the World
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web…. Now even my cat has its own page.
—Bill Clinton, US President, 1996, referring to the Web page for Socks, then the nation’s First Cat
When we were developing the Macintosh we kept in mind a famous quote of Picasso: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” What do I think of the suit? I personally don’t understand it…. Can I copyright gravity? No.
—Steve Jobs, commenting on Apple’s unsuccessful copyright suit against Microsoft for allegedly illegally copying of the Macintosh interface in Microsoft Windows 2.0
IN THIS CHAPTER
In Chapter 2, we looked at copyright ...
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