Hey lets not get into a pissing contest here. Somebody is eventually gonna
copy the FSM. Everything eventually gets copied right ?
Untill that day does get here, lets not fight about it.... k?
Has anybody thought to just ask DC ? Maybe they will just say ok. Hell we
could get lucky and get some dumb secretary on the phone and she could say
"uhhhhggg sure, i don't care" and then being that she does represent DC as
an employee (assuming she IS employed by DC and not a temp) we would legally
have the "go ahead" to do it......
Oh sorry I was just daydreaming again.... carry on with your pissing
contest...
Marty
"Andy Levy" <andylevy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3D0AA4C7.2000703@yahoo.com...
>
> Gary Hedlin wrote:
>
> > WRONG- You've got a lot of work to do to defend yourself.
>
> If you must...
> Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained
> in Title 17 of the United States Code - http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
>
> US Copyright Office - http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
>
> From http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html -
>
> "Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United
> States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of
> authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and
> certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both
> published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act
> generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to
> authorize others to do the following:
>
> To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
>
> To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
>
> To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale
> or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
>
> To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical,
> dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and
> other audiovisual works;
>
> To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary,
> musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial,
> graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a
> motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
> In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means
> of a digital audio transmission."
>
> IOW, copyright law says that DC can dictate anything and everything
> regarding how the work is distributed. If DC says you can't do
> something with the book, then doing it without DC's authorization is a
> violation of copyright. How much clearer does one have to make it?
>
> IMO, *you* are the one who needs to "defend yourself" - how are you NOT
> in violation of copyright law if you do what you've described earlier
today?
>
> --
> -andy
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