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From: jcoffey@crl.com (James L. Coffey)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: WAD AUTHORS - READ THIS - DOOM WAD CD response
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 09:23:43 -0700
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Walt Perko (wperko@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: The copyright laws are to protect the revenue value of a product. If anybody
: who originates a product and places it in the public domain, i.e., Internet,
: Public Access BBS's, Shareware floppies, a magazine, then that person or
: corporation cannot attempt to block distribution of that product simply because
: it now appears on a CD-ROM.
Wrong. You are confusing "Public Domain" with public distibution. The
copyright owner can specify how he or she wants a product to be
distributed. If they say Internet is OK but CDRoms aren't, then you
can't put it on a CDROM. Some authors only allow CIS to distribute their
products. Others put them up on BBS. Unless they specifically release
their code a public domain and forego copyright, they still own the work
and can control its distribution. Just as I can write a poem and say you
may xerox this and pass it around, but you may not put it into an
anthology, I can do the same with my code.
No doubt you will claim a compiliation copyright on your CD-ROM. Using
your argument that the base material is in the public domain, what's to
stop someone from copying the WADS on your disk and releasing a competing
disk? After all, if they are public domain, your disk is nothing but a
compilation of freely available material, and hence can be used as a
source for another disk (as long as any material you write that is
original is not used (unless, of course, you have postedin on a BBS)).
Jim
"Knowledge is Good" Emil Faber