Geez, George, you're talking so far out of school on this one, I'm finally
joining in. Since my livelihood depends entirely (yes, ENTIRELY) on copyright
law and rights to my creative ideas, I'll address this briefly (sorry Mike
but this is an issue not strictly GTS, but has implications about activities
on this list):
Copyright law runs a specific amount of time, roughly 20 years and is
renewable once only. Thus historical stuff like geometry can't still hold
copyright. Books from famous authors eventually fall into public domain to be
used freely by all. But if I write a book, article or whatever, it's mine and
I should be allowed to profit by it. Otherwise, no one would ever write a
book, whether it be a great novel or a workshop manual.
Basically, the law simply prevents you from stealing everything I work
for. And breaking copyright rules is theft in every possible sense of the
word. Illegal, immoral, unfair....
If I can't have an effective copyright, you can't have a patent or
ownership of anything. I would feel free to take your GTS, your other
belongings, real estate, daughter, spouse and so on.
May I suggest you think and/or research before spouting such inane
drivel. (Nothing personal and I grant copyright of this message to public
domain.)
-Jay
In a message dated 6/9/00 4:20:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Imagine if the ancient Greeks copyrighted their architecture (watch
>out DC and the rest of us using Greek columns) or their military strategy
>(pay up Patton), their geometry, trigonometry or physics & chemistry (upon
>which the printing press was based...pay up Luther), or their philosophical
>& political concepts (yea that's it, lets pay them since we've been using
>their democracy all these years), medical terms (dig deep multinational
>conglomerates), oh hell I got one more their language, words of which we
>use
>every day!
