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Re: "Tipster" voluntary payment protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ravensara Siobhan Travillian)
Wed Aug 23 19:03:03 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ravensara Siobhan Travillian <siobhanh@blarg.net>
To: Fred Hapgood <hapgood@pobox.com>
Cc: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, Jeff Kandt <jeff@scrollbar.com>,
cryptography@c2.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Fred Hapgood wrote:
> Stick *what* into a standard contract? What would that provision
> look like? "Artist agrees not to accept gifts from fans?" "Artist
> agrees not to possess or publicize public key or digital signature?"
>
> I don't think so. The RIAA is unhinged, but not that unhinged.
> Even if it is, this is one crazy idea that would get laughed out of
> court by the clerks filing the motion, let alone a judge.
No, it's pretty standard in publishing law. The rights to different kinds
of uses of a work in different venues is pretty well established, and I
think they'd move to sew that one up pretty quickly.
--Ravensara Travillian
