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Re: [dvd-discuss] NYTimes.com Article: Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute



Good point.....it's the internet equivalent of a television commercial and 
as with the TV commercial I don't object to them playing it but I do 
object when the TV station or cable company believes that I have to watch 
the commercial OR that I can't edit the commercial out of my video 
tape.....is the link still active? (I can't find Arnold's original email 
to check it out). But I suspect that it is not and this commercial 
announcement is a come-on to get you to register with the NYTimes so they 
can sell your information to the lists.




"Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
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Noah is correct. I did click the "email this to a friend" link and 
didn't realize an ad would be included. But that raises an 
interesting ethical (and legal) question.  Like most on this list, i 
am strongly opposed to the enormous widening of copyright protections 
and the resulting abuse of power.  It seems to me that part of that 
fight should be to encourage responsible use of copyright. When a 
content creator, like the New York Times, makes its material 
available on the Internet for free and provides a mechanism for 
forwarding that material via e-mail at the price of including a small 
ad, then perhaps their behavior should be rewarded and we should 
respect their wishes that the ad be included  when the material is 
disseminated.

Arnold Reinhold



At 1:58 PM -0400 4/23/02, Noah silva wrote:
>Probably this is one of those "email this to a friend" type links on the
>web page that doesn't mention it will be emailing other things as well. I
>never actually used those because... I didn't find it that cary to copy
>and paste a URL.
>
> -- noah silva
>
>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Steve Bryan wrote:
>
>> At the risk of appearing hypersensitive, why are we being sent an
>> advertisement in e-mail? If sending a link to an article requires that
>> it be accompanied by an even greater mass of advertising, please don't
>> bother sending the link. I don't mean to imply everyone must behave
>> according to my whims, I only intend to express my opinion which I
>> suspect might be held by many others.
>>
>> > On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 10:37  pm, reinhold@world.std.com 
wrote:
>> >
>> > This article from NYTimes.com
>> > has been sent to you by reinhold@world.std.com.
>> >
>> >
>> > /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\
>>
>