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.
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.)