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- From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
- Subject: Re: One of my "heard on the air" postings in IFR unattributed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.022413.2879@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University
- References: <1992Dec24.003146.8745@xymox.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 02:24:13 GMT
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- Certainly don't want to start a flame war here, but let me ask:
- given for example the kinds of strict legal restrictions that apply to
- reproducing overhead cellular phone conversations and the like, is it
- really all that valid to post something "heard on the air" to the net
- in the first place?
-
- To put this in another way, independent of the strict legalities of
- the whole thing, if what's posted to the net is really originally
- "heard on the air" and hence is "in the public domain" in a sense, and
- if it's OK to reproduce that on the net, does the poster then really
- acquire more rights in the words than the individual(s) who uttered
- them in the first place?
-
- Or, if you've reproduced someone else's words without _their_
- permission, have you a valid complaint when someone else then
- reproduces your (unauthorized) reproduction of their words without
- _your_ permission?
-
- (Not intended as criticism in any way; I enjoy reading those
- postings. But these seem to me fair questions.)
-
-