RE: [dvd-discuss] Hang the RIAA in their own noose.

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah silva [mailto:nsilva@atari-source.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:41 PM
> To: 'dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu'
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Hang the RIAA in their own noose.
> 
> 
> > much more sense than working in the "physical space".  And
> > in the _model_ I have posted one copy for all on this list
> > to read.  If the NYT wants to publish this on paper, they
> > would have to ask permission.
> 
> Except that if the web archive is considered public, then you are
> knowingly posting to a public place, so I think the times 
> copying it is
> just taking a public document and distributing it.
> 
> (and at any rate, I certainly wouldn't post top-secret info 
> to this list).
> 

The Weekly Reader in San Diego is a newspaper that is 
distributed for free.  So you are saying that any other
publication can just lift articles from it and reprint
them w/o permission because it was free?

Copyright doesn't work that way.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!