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How will the court decide?How will the court decide?Posted May 23, 2003 16:49 UTC (Fri) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)In reply to: How will the court decide? by dd9jn Parent article: ...and if SCO is right...? That's not really true. Copyright law explicitly does cover translations of texts into other languages. That can *only* be evaluated in terms of semantics. Also, I really doubt that you can take a Steven King novel, change the names of the characters, reword each sentence slightly, and have the result found by a court to not infringe the copyright. Copyright protects the expression of an idea, not the idea, but it is up to a court to decide whether a different work is just a variant of the same expression, or a new and different expression of the same idea.
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