home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Toolkit for DOOM
/
DOOMTOOL.ISO
/
news
/
2700
/
2724
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
1994-09-04
|
2KB
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!news1.digex.net!access3!tdarcos
From: tdarcos@access3.digex.net (Paul Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: WAD AUTHORS - READ THIS - DOOM WAD CD response
Followup-To: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom
Date: 4 Sep 1994 17:26:20 GMT
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <34cvvs$2b8@news1.digex.net>
References: <3317l1$e8q@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <331e09$702@panix2.panix.com> <genghis.777305621@ilces> <rayvt-2308940819010001@dd311.comm.mot.com> <genghis.777861753@ilces>
NNTP-Posting-Host: access3.digex.net
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Xref: oz.cdrom.com alt.games.doom:3665 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action:1362 alt.cd-rom:760
Scott Coleman (genghis@ilces.ag.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: <SIGH> I don't really feel like giving you a clue abut the Unites States
: Copyright laws - if you're up to it, feel free to look them up yourself.
: Suffice it to say that the copyright holder (by default the author of
: the work, unless he assigns some or all of his rights to another party)
: has the legal power to control distribution of his work. This means that
: if he thinks it's OK to have the work distributed via BBS but not via
: CD-ROM, then he can specify that and the CD-ROM producer has to obey the
: author's wishes. If the CD-ROM producer distributes the work anyway, the
: CD-ROM producer has broken the law.
If the work says it is permitted to be distributed for free, but does not
permit distribution at a charge, that constitutes illegal price fixing
under the Sherman Antitrust Act, and if it ever came up in a court, the
court would declare the restriction void as a violation of federal law.
Setting a minimum or a maximum price for a product or service sold by
someone else is price fixing, and it's illegal.
--
Reports on Security Problems: To Subscribe write PROBLEMS-REQUEST@TDR.COM
Paul Robinson - paul@tdr.com / tdarcos@MCIMail.com / tdarcos@access.digex.net
Voted "Largest Polluter of the (IETF) list" by Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Voted "Largest Polluter of digex.general" by Mike <voss@orange.digex.net>