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Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!rat!decwrl!netcomsv!ix.netcom.com!netnews
From: wperko@ix.netcom.com (Walt Perko)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: WAD AUTHORS - READ THIS - DOOM WAD CD response
Date: 5 Sep 1994 15:12:44 GMT
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In <34a7uf$kio@crl7.crl.com> jcoffey@crl.com (James L. Coffey) writes:
>
>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
>
>
I suppose Ted Turner, Walnut Creek CD-ROM and thousands of other's are
violating our copyright laws?
--
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