well Mr. Bodi, it might be your view, the view of the court and the view
of the entire legalized world, but my point was, that even if it were,
which I do not yet think it is true, that there is absolutely no way to
enforce it against 4 billion people, there just is no place on the net
for copyright.
The net is different, it is nothing more than a set of derivatives, one
thing leads to 10, ten to millions. Copyright, if it were to be allowed
to interpose on this collaborative interactivity would do exactly what
copyright is not empowered to do, interfere with the progress of
civilization and in particular the arts and sciences.
sterling
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Robert F. Bodi wrote:
> > I say it again and again and again, if your author was to protect his or
> > her stuff, she should keep it out of the public domain. The interent is
> > the public domain.
>
> Yet again, Sterling shows an utter lack of understanding of what "public
> domain" means. I only respond to clarify this issue for others reading this
> list. An item is NOT in the public domain just because it has been made
> publicly available. Obviously, if that were the case, everything in the
> library (or even a bookstore) would be in the public domain. Just because
> images are put on the WWW and made available for free does NOT give others
> the right to use those images in any manner that they deem fit. This is a
> settled matter of law, and not debatable.
>
> Further, I agree that, arguably, there is an implied license to display the
> image on a browser using HTTP and HTML. However, there is no implied
> license to use that image to display in other web pages. In my mind, that
> is an unauthorized derivative work, and thus would likely be an infringement
> of copyright.
>
> -Bodi
>
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