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Re: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code]
From: Stan Horwitz <stan () temple edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:37:33 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Eric D. Williams wrote:
Re: the lack of legal backing here are a number of links that appear relevant to the question (do you violate copyright by publishing hacker code, discovered subsequent to intrusion?). Indeed it appears that the law is fuzzy on this one concerning copyright and intellectual property. But, given the circumstance that a listing or binary of the aformentioned code can not be deterined as authorized in the first case - the intrusion itself is illegal, it appears it can not pass the copyright or intellectual property tests.
So exactly how many virus authors would be foolish enough to try to assert a copyright on one of their virus programs? Doing so would mean that the copyright holder also accept responsibility (typically criminal) for the virus, would it not?
Current thread:
- hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Eric D. Williams (Jul 25)
- Re: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Stan Horwitz (Jul 26)
- Re: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Stanley G. Bubrouski (Jul 26)
- Re: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Timothy Lawless (Jul 26)
- 10 Big Myths about Copyright (especially as pertains to Internet Publication) Don Papp (Jul 26)
- Re: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Greg A. Woods (Jul 26)
- Re: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Joe Shaw (Jul 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Eric D. Williams (Jul 26)
- RE: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Greg A. Woods (Jul 26)
- RE: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Eric D. Williams (Jul 26)
- Re: hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code] Joe Shaw (Jul 26)