Cooler: Read the decision. The judge defined the term and this is now considered a definition of public domain. The Film distributors won the case but lost the war. The doc read the decision and inferred, correctly, that if he could not sell his ripping soft, he could release the code in the public domain. And sell the code legally. The distributors kept their rights, but they meant nothing in the end. They had shot their bolt. In the second case, (I was involved in the same type of case and won based on a PD argument), the way that information makes its way into PD is vital to any case. Believe me. And it can indirectly affect proprietary rights. I don't agree with the decision in the Ripper case, but that's now the precedent.

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hazard
S Mallarmé