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<FONT FACE="Verdana">Janet,<BR>
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I agree with all you said. That was very well thought out and well stated. (And I’m not just saying that because I agree with you.) Hear hear! (or is that “here here!”?)<BR>
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Chris<BR>
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on 5/14/05 10:21 PM, Pengyfelix@aol.com at Pengyfelix@aol.com wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">Personally, I have never downloaded or copied movies, music, etc. and that isn't just because I'm technologically inept. Can't say I'm entirely innocent though. I'd be willing to lay kopins that I'm not the only one on this list that has patronized the pirated DVD booths at cons. Sure, we all know they're illegally copied/sold videos, even if the seller slaps a disclamer that he/she believes this material is in the public domain (saw that one on Star Wars--yeah right). My moral justification is that we're trolling those booths for programs that have never been professionally released for the home video market (e.g. Star Wars Christmas Special), and we're not buying the bootleg Spiderman 2 or whatever. We buy the professional releases of the programs or movies when they are available, but certain things are simply not out there on the non-pirated market. I'd give the producer/writer/artist his cut if they would just put it out there for me to buy from them, but until they do... Sure that's just excusing something that I know good and well is a violation of US copyright laws. I've not lost sleep over it.<BR>
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As for the resale of artwork on eBay, I'll just reiterate what has become, I think, the consensus: people who get sketches from artists for the express purpose of selling them are jerks, and not just because they make the lines longer for us legitimate fans. However, if you got a sketch from a favorite artist, then fall on hard economic times, it is a painful decision to part with your sketch to make the rent payment this month. Knowing that you had to hawk your beloved artwork for a roof over your head is bad enough without us self-righteously emailing "tsk-tsk" from our comfy, warm computers. Between those two ends, there is a lot of grey area that ME and Sergio, being the interested parties, assess on a case-by-case basis. All we need to do is bring it to their attention. I think, as a Groop, we're pretty good at doing that, and they're pretty good at nabbing genuine offenders.<BR>
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Janet<BR>
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http://janetharriett.blogspot.com <http://janetharriett.blogspot.com/> <BR>
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