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RE: Copyright [cgf, please comment]
- To: "'Chris Wolfe'" <cwolfe at globetrotter dot qc dot ca>, Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Subject: RE: Copyright [cgf, please comment]
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:31:40 -0400
- Cc: "'[List] Cygwin/XFree86'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
> Could anyone who wants to indulge in completely useless and
> damned annoying personal sniping please resort to doing so in
> private? As much as I enjoy knowing what is planned for the
> future of the project, this sort of infantile behavior gets on my
> nerves.
>
Thanks. It gets on my nerves too :) My post was "discuss the issues
directly with me". If you read it. A couple of messages to him were
private
which he started copying to list.
> Copyright in the US protects the presentation of a work, *NOT*
> the informational content. Duplicating the informational content
> in a new presentation results in, guess what, a new copyrightable
> work. I believe Harold has pointed this out half a dozen times
> already, but it does not seem to have registered.
Not true.
>
> See: <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#wnp>
This has been challenged in legal courts and Eastman had lost
several cases. I wn't go into details because I said I had closed
this senseless thread.
Suhaib
>
> Chris
>
> ~~~~~~
> Lawyer? heck no, literate.
>