Re: [Patents] Voice of patenting business

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 09:25 -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> is there a good web page that outlines this theory (the programs =
> literary works under TRIPS = non-patentable one) in a manner that is
> comprehensible to newbies?   I ask because it's a very interesting new
> angle, IMO, and I doubt many people outside of the anti-swpat community
> know about it yet.

It is not theory, as explained in

http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/trips/index.en.html

and more exactly in TRIPs Article 10:

http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/trips/index.en.html#art10

TRIPs Article 10: Computer Programs and Compilations of Data
     1. Computer programs, whether in source or object code, shall be
        protected as literary works under the Berne Convention (1971).
     2. Compilations of data or other material, whether in machine
        readable or other form, which by reason of the selection or
        arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations
        shall be protected as such. Such protection, which shall not
        extend to the data or material itself, shall be without
        prejudice to any copyright subsisting in the data or material
        itself.

What fun!

Rui

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