[1701] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Thanks for the downloading help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lowry)
Fri Mar 22 14:11:53 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:42:46 -0500
From: John Lowry <jlowry@bbn.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, crowley@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
There is a significant difference in legal opinion concerning
data as it traverses the net and as it is displayed on a screen (for example).
The distinction is that these forms constitute a "performance" - in legal
terms - and that copyright does not cover performances per-se. Performances
are covered under different cover (usually license).
Isn't this fun ?
John
> From owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu Thu Mar 21 18:14 EST 1996
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:56:08 -0500
> From: crowley@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Albert T Crowley)
> To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Thanks for the downloading help!
>
>
> However, neither of these copyright statements stands alone. Calling
> individual pages copyrighted implictly is not likely to stand the court
> tests anymore than copyright law protects a letter sent to me w/o
> any form of copyright marking.
>
> A friend of mine is a copyright lawyer (intellectual property), and she
> says that all web pages are implicitly copyrighted under current
> copyright law.
>
> Furthermore, making a copy of a page, EVEN IN RAM!, is considered a
> copyright violation under the same law.
>
> Making the page available by http does not implicitly wave the
> copyright....we all are just breaking the law every time we look at a
> web site.
>
> Isn't the legal system great! (I am not making this up, I swear it
> is true as far as I know.)
>
> -Al
>
