Apparently, he's been working on this for three years! Here's something he wrote back in 2001 that just warms my little physicist heart... Here's the first paragraph, with some added emphasis:
For over thirty years, software copyright has been a succession of court cases and law review articles based on bad law, bad logic, bad mathematics, and/or bad physics (Benson, CONTU, Whelan and Altai being all of these). I have decided to write a critical review arguing that software copyright (and dependents like TRIPS, GPL, Bernstein, Junger) should be abolished in light of 17 USC 102b and its equivalents - for one reason - it is bad law with no logical basis in the mathematics and physics of information processing.I'm trying to get a copy of the filing he made in San Francisco so I can compare it to the Skylink and Lexmark rulings, but I haven't got it yet.
All I can say at this point is that I strongly support the idea of reformulating copyright and patent law around fundamental principles that are both self-consistent and physically reasonable. It's long overdue.
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