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Re: Thanks for the download
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephan Bugaj)
Wed Mar 20 20:29:41 1996
Date: 20 Mar 1996 14:30:10 U
From: "Stephan Bugaj" <stephan@cmdesigns.com>
To: "WWW Security" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
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Interestingly, saying that copying a document into RAM is intellectual =
property theft makes it very difficult for copyright owners to exercise =
due dilligence in pursuing those who violate their copyrights. One =
possible effect of the passage of such a law would be forcing a large =
amount of copyrighted material into the public domain by virtue of their =
owners being unable to afford to take reasonable protetective measures in =
light of such volume of infringement.
It is an interesting era for intellectual property law.
- Stephan
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Date: 3/20/96 2:17 PM
To: Stephan Bugaj
From: Pierre-Yves Bonnetain
>
> 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.
>
That's fine for me, as long as the legislative entities passing such =
bills
find a way to make people _pay_ for those so-called copies in RAM (that's =
the
point of copyright, huh ?).
I propose to widden the scope of the bill to computers used for
transit of such documents. This is because access providers are richer =
than
the average guy, and a good case could bring millions in copyright =
infrigments.
That way, we will quickly return to the good ol' times when we were =
working
with paper and pencil (yeah, I'm a stockholder of paper and pencil
manufacturers :-).
--
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