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- From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu (Hari Seldon)
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- Subject: Re: Copyrights and piracy...
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 02:41:42 GMT
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- In <14820@claris.com> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul21.180343.4066@newstand.syr.edu>, ksalper@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ken Alper) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> I have a slight feeling that I'm going to be flamed.
- >>
- >> Screw the rights of the performers. It's the age of information. Unless a
- >> person is making money from or passing off another's work as his own, I don't
- >> think it's a problem. Hey, Matt Groening, my Mac says "Working is for Chumps."
- >> Do you and Nancy Cartwright give a shit?
- >>
- >> Didn't think so.
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- >What if he decides to market a disk full of sounds from The Simpsons and you
- >have already copied those sounds to your disk, so you don't need to buy his
- >disk?
-
- >Sounds from Star Trek are on the market now. That means a lost sale to
- >people who have already copied those sounds from videotape or off the
- >air.
-
- >There is no difference between copying those sounds and copying executable
- >software. You're right; this is the age of information--however, that makes
- >information a commodity to be bought and sold. By taking it for free without
- >the permission of the owner, you are robbing from him.
-
- >You're also right that you're going to be flamed--rightfully so, IMO.
-
- this is starting to remind me of an sf story.
- takes place in the future where popular 'movie star type' copyright
- their image, and one in particular sees someone who looks like
- him; sue him and wins. in the end the poor sap has his life ruined
- and had to have plastic surgery so he didn't look like him any longer.
-
- just thought i'd drop this in as this thread looked like it might
- cool off to soon :-)
-
- bill pociengel
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