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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: news.admin,news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Harmlessness of a.b.p.e (long, but read it anyway)
- Message-ID: <635@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:41:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.003412.10710@news.columbia.edu> <1992Nov18.225743.12386@clarinet.com> <1992Nov20.012853.14667@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.012853.14667@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.225743.12386@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
- >>
- >>Many people misunderstand copyright as strictly the right to sell a work.
- >>It is not. It is the right to control what is done with your creation.
- >>The most obvious benefit of this control is the right to charge money for
- >>granting permission to copy, but it is not the entirety of it.
- >>
- > I think that if they aren't being hurt, that most creators would be happy
- >that others are making good use of thier works. At least works that they
- >have exposed to the public.
-
- So I should feel free to distribute Larry Niven's "Ringworld" on the
- net, because he has already exposed it to the public?
-
- I don't know which "creators" you are talking about. Most of 'em
- actually *like* their royalties.....
-
- Perhaps the key in your argument lies in the phrase "...good use...",
- but for the life of me I don't really see how that matters, nor (more
- to the point) why you should be allowed to be the arbiter of what is a
- "good use" over the opinions of the creator of the work.
-
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- > Without harm, freedom should rule. If online services had existed before
-
- We exist under the rule of law. If you don't like the law, lobby
- to get it changed. Advocating ignoring laws that one finds inconvenient
- is the road to anarchy.
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