Hasn't everyone been following the story of the professor that was being sued by the government for putting a single line of Perl code on his web page? The code was a rudimentary form of encryption and that was why he was being sued.
The government lost because it was argued that computer code is not separate from the English language it was written in. Therefore, HTML most certainly can be copyrighted. Why the hell not? To a human, a printed HTML page is purely text. Only when it is run through a computer does it turn into something different.
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Hasn't everyone been following the story of the professor that was being sued by the government for putting a single line of Perl code on his web page? The code was a rudimentary form of encryption and that was why he was being sued.
The government lost because it was argued that computer code is not separate from the English language it was written in. Therefore, HTML most certainly can be copyrighted. Why the hell not? To a human, a printed HTML page is purely text. Only when it is run through a computer does it turn into something different.
Then Microsoft will be forced to censor their own servers as well. That will hurt them in the wallet.