Re: Fair use defined (was: Re: Stallman Admits to Copyright Infringement)

2000-05-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there jurisprudence on the specific topic of how the fair use > exception relates to making personal copies? One interesting precedent I know of. First, there is precedent that you may make a tape recording of a musical album you own, for personal pur

Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins

2000-05-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But this is not what GPL is about . . . apparently. Apparently, even if > the original author wants his or her work used in a certain non-GPL-ed > way, it doesn't matter. The moral thing to do is to disregard the > wishes of the author and to copy it any

Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins

2000-05-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Steve Greenland on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:55:48AM CDT > On 21-May-00, 01:51 (CDT), Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are several levels of 'ownership' here. What are called 'mechanical' > > rights - the rights to the actual recorded sound are different from the > >

Copyright, Patent Expirations [Was: Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins]

2000-05-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:08:59PM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote: > Some copyrights never expire. For example, my understanding is that the > UK "crown copyright" (a copyright owned by the government) is perpetual. > The US follows almost exactly the opposite rule, where works by or for the > governme

Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins

2000-05-21 Thread Paul Serice
Raul Miller wrote: > First, you really ought to learn to think clearly. > > You've assigned the wrong purpose to the GPL. We have different views on this. I don't think this necessarily makes me wrong. It all depends on how the future plays out. Frankly, I hope you're right; I hope I am wrong.

Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins

2000-05-21 Thread Steve Greenland
On 21-May-00, 01:51 (CDT), Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several levels of 'ownership' here. What are called 'mechanical' > rights - the rights to the actual recorded sound are different from the > rights to the arrangement, lyrics and music. I can see where record > com

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-21 Thread Ronald L. Chichester
Simon Richter wrote: > Anyone who is a lawyer or knows one care to check this? We're still > talking about a gpg frontend, which will not have any general plugins -- > just crypto ones. > I'll check into it in more detail when I get back from a business trip (Thursday). Does someone need the ans

music considered work for hire (Was: WAAAY off original subject)

2000-05-21 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:51:16AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > I think the recording industry is trying to purchase (or has recently > > purchased) a law that satisfies this insistence. The gist I got was that the > > law would make all work they publish will be considered a work for hire. >

Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins

2000-05-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Brian Ristuccia on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:12:06AM CDT > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:36:47PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote: > > Seth David Schoen writes: > > > > > accreted on top of the copyright system, so that authors have become > > > quite insistent about their absolute "ownership"

Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins

2000-05-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:36:47PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote: > Seth David Schoen writes: > > > accreted on top of the copyright system, so that authors have become > > quite insistent about their absolute "ownership" of their work, and > > I should probably say that agents and publishers ha