Resolves YES if, before the market close date, the U.S. Supreme Court or any U.S. Court of Appeals issues a majority opinion explicitly holding that software which dynamically links against a shared library thereby creates a derivative work under U.S. copyright law, and that holding has not been vacated or reversed before market resolution.

For purposes of this market, "dynamic linking" means an executable that depends on a separately distributed shared library and resolves symbols at load time or runtime, without incorporating the library's code into the executable binary.

Qualifying holdings must interpret the definition of "derivative work" and related provisions of the Copyright Act as they existed on the market creation date. Holdings that depend on statutory amendments enacted after market creation do not qualify.

Resolves NO if, before the market close date, the U.S. Supreme Court or any U.S. Court of Appeals issues a majority opinion explicitly holding that software which dynamically links against a shared library does not thereby create a derivative work under U.S. copyright law, and that holding has not been vacated or reversed before market resolution.

The same limitation regarding post-creation statutory amendments applies to NO resolutions.

If conflicting qualifying holdings exist, Supreme Court holdings take precedence over Court of Appeals holdings. If only Court of Appeals holdings exist and they conflict, the earliest qualifying holding determines resolution.

Resolves N/A if no qualifying holding exists by the market close date.