[Groop] the magic of stealing
Bodhikt at aol.com
Bodhikt at aol.com
Fri Jul 3 05:57:11 PDT 2009
In a message dated 7/2/2009 6:36:13 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
seanferris at optonline.net writes:
The site is a public domain, does it say "any use of the information found
on this site is a violation of blah blah blah"? Is there a copy & paste
guard? Then it is information that is for public consumption and use. In your
explanation what was originally done was a copyright infringement.
It is an "urban legend" that anything found on the Internet is in public
domain. By current law, anything published, in any way, is copyrighted,
whether or not the copyright is registered, and whether or not there is any
"notice" attached to the work. There are a few exceptions-- like works
published before 1923, then a few things re: work published after that through the
1960s or so (if not renewed after a certain number of years and/or death of
creator + 70 years).
A creator also can CHOOSE to put his/her works in the public domain (a
legal process), assign the copyright to another person/corporation (also a
legal process), license the use of his/her copyrighted work, or just may not be
sufficiently wealthy (or healthy) to prosecute violations. If there is no
notice explicitly giving you permission to copy, then you need to get
permission to do so... just ask, in other words. It's the polite thing to do, as
well as the legal thing to do. Like borrowing somebody's car... you need
to get permission, or it is theft.
Here's the "cartoon version" of the law:
_http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#/copyright/_
(http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#/copyright/) ; you also can check _www.copyright.gov_
(http://www.copyright.gov) for a more adult version.
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