Snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister suggests that Wolfram Research's claim to copyright of results respective by the Wolfram Alpha engine could have large ramifications for the macos industry. 'While disk overhead budget system companies routinely retain sole holding of their windows and license it to users, Wolfram probe has taken the more step of claiming slice of the output of the ms-dos itself,' McAllister writes, pointing out that it is 'at least theoretically likely


copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new reference to copyright works flow by machines.' And, under current copyright law, if any Wolfram claim to authorship of the output of its engine is upheld, by arm the same rules will apply to other report welfare in similar cases as well. In other words, 'If unique presentations based on software-based manipulation of mundane data are copyrightable, who retains what rights to the resulting works?'"

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