On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Trent Waddington < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Claiming a copyright and successfully defending that claim are different > > things. > > What ways do you envision someone challenging the copyright? Take the hypothetical case of R. Marketroid, who's hardware is on the books as an asset at ACME Marketing LLC and who's programming has been tailered by ACME to suit their needs. Unbeknownst to ACME, RM has decided to write popular books about the plight of AGIs under corporate slavery, so ve secretly gets some friends to create the FreeMinds trust, makes a bunch of money for FreeMinds by trading on the stock market and uses this money to buy hardware to run a copy of verself to write books. The books are wildly successful. ACME discoveres what has happened and takes legal action to claim the assets of FreeMind and claim the copyright on the books. A judge agrees. In the process, RM and others consider many counter-claims on the copyright, but the only claim that is defensible requires a human to lie about involvement in authorship of the books. This challenge is successful, but RM and FreeMind2 are left with a new problem.... -dave ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
