> So the act of 'loading code' is publishing?

No. Publishing is 'making available'.

> The US judge in the chess game lawsuit ruled that because the
> copyright notice was not readable by a human, it had no effect.

AFAIK in the context of Dutch law - if this were the judge's opinion - a
copyright mark would not change that.

> Most copyright laws are written with the assumption that
> the 'work' is perceived by humans. Since machines cannot 'perceive'
> a work, then by inference there is no copywrong when executing
> a copy of the binary code.

AFAIK that interpretation is not (or no longer) used in my country.

Wouter van Ooijen

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