Why Object Code Copyright Doesn’t Make Any Sense! Even Under Rule Of Doubt! My Recently Excavated Dilemma From Below Seabed!

 

What is incomprehensible, should it be considered as Copyrightable? Nope! Until one can run the same on any Medium to make it Comprehensible to make sure it isn’t incomprehensible! Correct? But if that is done, then the whole context & concept of Rule Of Doubt disappears! Correct? So, what is the point of Rule of Doubt only? It is either AYE AYE SIRE, OR, GOODBYE SIRE in Copyrights! Shouldn’t it be like that way only? In IP, nothing is accepted on the basis of contingency! In IP, nothing is accepted in abstract nor in the idea form. Then until the object code itself is not reversed to its source code form, what’s the point of having the object code only, and that too further with the Rule of Doubt contingency? It’s like registering gibberish, without knowing what is there inside, and the person owning the same enjoying the rights, to the extent when anyone discovers it was mere gibberish! This dilemma of mine just got excavated!

Further, redacting the trade secrets in the code itself to a certain extent is understandable. BUT, but, the requirement for few starting or ending pages, say twenty five to fifty, is again, bizarre, at least to me. And there’s a huge reason behind that.

Certain pages cannot explicitly demonstrate copyrights. Not possible! No matter the length of the code, if it goes into thousands of pages, the entire source code should be needed, with the exception of redacting few specific areas, wherein, the trade secrets are sought. And secondly, no one is going to read the thousands and thousands lines of code, until being run on a special tool to demonstrate the similarity index of the code itself.

I can understand, the companies must have put pressure on the offices to tweak the acts and rules in such a way that should suit them. Means, on one hand you say that, more than two paragraphs the publishing house cannot take without permission, and more than 5%-10% of the work is considered usually as plagiarized (if been done without citations or credits). And on another hand, been allowed few edited pages to be filed, or been considered on the basis of Rule of Doubt!

Am I wrong? Is the excavated dilemma problematic?

Think about it!😊

© Pranav Chaturvedi