Fabien <fab### [at] skynetbe> wrote in message
news:37F### [at] skynetbe...
> Ken wrote:
> > Raises an interesting question. If someone uses "your" source code to
> > render an image on "their" computer is the image that is produced now
> > the property of the computer owner who produces the image ?
>
>  That's a very special case, and I can't think of any comparison in the
> art field.  At worse, you could always consider Pov code as
> automatically
> copyrighted, just like any programming code.
[snip]

That's not really the case (in the US):
Source needs a specific copyright statement (with year) to make it
copyrighted. If you publish your source without such a statement, it will
fall into the public domain.
But if you publish it with a statement, for example something like "If you
use the source or parts of it to render an image, you may not publish the
resulting image in any commercial way.. bla, bla..." then nobody can legally
use the image created by the source in any such way as you exclude it in the
copyright note.

Johannes.

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