Re: to the point/Latin mutteri

Concerning the problem of the protection of artistic integrity noted by Buford Terrell:  

On the Internet, one often sees something like the following attached to "creative" postings: "This message may be freely distributed, but only if unmodified and not used for commercial purposes."  

A similar restriction is usually attached to shareware.  

So the copyright holder is in effect granting a restricted license. I suppose the same restricted license could be explicitly attached to any work in a universe in which rights existed only for sales. Or else the restricted license could be part of the new statute. Anyway, since this sort of arrangement already seems to be functional on the Internet, maybe it could be extrapolated.  

Dan Agin
<specpress[_at_]genie.geis.com> Received on Thu Nov 24 1994 - 01:10:41 GMT