[lit-ideas] Re: What is a computer program?
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:33:46 -0500
"Mike Geary" writes:
: You're looking for a metaphor? A computer program is a theatrical
: performance. What is a play? It's not the script, not the theater, not the
: actors nor the sets or the lighting A play resides in the performance.
: It's an event that causes responses in those who experience it. So, too, is
: a computer program -- it is written as is a play by an artist whose talent
: determines the elegance of the program. Or -- a computer program is a
: musical performance. A song is an experienced event. So is a computer
: program. The experience and the subsequent response need not be by a human,
: it could be that of another computer, a machine, etc. How are performance
: arts treated under the law? I know computer programs are considered
: intellectual properties, but a "program" is no more what a computer program
: is than a script is a play or a musical score is music.
:
: I'm sure this is not at all what you're looking for, but so what? I had
: fun.
:
: Mike Geary
: Memphis
Thanks. That is a good example of what I am looking for.
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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