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?
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