HI All, Theft and copyright infringement are interresting things in the internet world. In one sense anything on the net is up for grabs. That is anybody can download it. That is not theft. it is part of the web. On the other side if you use that copy on the web you need permission unless, already given per se. An interresting case is where you just use the URLs to access the entiity. You are effectively citing it!! You have given reference to the source. You are not using a copy. A sad development here in Germany is that it is now considered ownership of child pornography once it is loaded into main memeory! Please do not get me wrong I am against child pronograohy. But, visting a web-site thereby constitutes onwnership. What a bag of bad worms. Then again anything I load from the web I own, to use as I please privately!!! Cool ? !! regards Keith. Am 07.03.2010 um 21:26 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
al said:
IMO - what bowerbird is proposing is outright theft.
i guess it's silly season here on the project gutenberg listserve. people are quite casual lately tossing about the "t" word ("theft!").
won't somebody please come train the firehose on this attack-dog so i don't have to? some elementary public-domain f.a.q. will do.
in the meantime, as i have "confessed" before, i've mounted some of roger's scansets on my own site, so if roger has a problem with me doing that, he should send me a cease-and-desist. (kidding, of course, which should be obvious since i hate lawyers so much; roger can just send an e-mail, and we can discuss it all friendly.)