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Re: Thanks for the downloading help!


On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Albert T Crowley wrote:

> A friend of mine is a copyright lawyer (intellectual property), and she
> says that all web pages are implicitly copyrighted under current
> copyright law.

This is well known, by the Berne Convention.

> Furthermore, making a copy of a page, EVEN IN RAM!, is considered a
> copyright violation under the same law.

It is *not* the same law.  When that is claimed, it is based on precedent.

MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc.
<URL:http://server.berkeley.edu/HTLJ/abstract/101nicho.htm>

However, this is extremely unlikely to be found applicable to the WWW 
because of the context in which the ruling was made.

IANAL.

This is off-topic for www-security, too.

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