[1695] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Thanks for the downloading help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Phillips)
Thu Mar 21 16:50:51 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:57:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Phillips <paulp@cerf.net>
To: Albert T Crowley <crowley@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603211656.LAA19460@gradin.cis.upenn.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Albert T Crowley wrote:
> A friend of mine is a copyright lawyer (intellectual property), and she
> says that all web pages are implicitly copyrighted under current
> copyright law.
This is well known, by the Berne Convention.
> Furthermore, making a copy of a page, EVEN IN RAM!, is considered a
> copyright violation under the same law.
It is *not* the same law. When that is claimed, it is based on precedent.
MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc.
<URL:http://server.berkeley.edu/HTLJ/abstract/101nicho.html>
However, this is extremely unlikely to be found applicable to the WWW
because of the context in which the ruling was made.
IANAL.
This is off-topic for www-security, too.
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