[1679] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Thanks for the downloading help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian W. Spolarich)
Wed Mar 20 02:37:27 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:03:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@ans.net>
To: matt jackson <mattj@indiana.edu>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960319084908.12995B-100000@juliet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, matt jackson wrote:
> But you might be interested to know that recent court decisions have
> stated that placing something in RAM is making a copy. And a bill is
> just coming out of committee in Congress that would strengthen copyright
> law to the point where simply browsing through the Web reading documents
> (without saving or printing them) could be considered copyright infringement.
Um...if one puts a document so that an HTTP (or other) server can read
it, and I read it, either by finding it with a search engine or other
means, how can that be considered copyright infringement?
If they copyright owner didn't want the document to be read, then they
shouldn't put the document in a publicly-accessible place. If they want
to impose access restrictions/charges/etc. that's their business, and its
my obligation to respect those restrictions. I think your post is
missing (hopefully) some crucial factual detail.
Do you have a reference on this piece of legislation?
-brian
--
Brian W. Spolarich - ANS CO+RE Systems - briansp@ans.net - (313)677-7311
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
