Re: Copyright in Arrangement (Was: Re: Academics and coursepacks)

From: Michael Scarpitti <MScarpit[_at_]asnt.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:47:41 -0400

On 20, July 1998, Joseph P. Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> To continue one more time, twenty years later, person E discovers
> an old book in a coffin that is buried about 5 miles away from the
> old cave. The old book shows that person C's order is the right one.
> How will it affect the copyright status of persons A's, B's, and C's
> orders?

To make a somewhat obvious point, copyright is no guarantee of authenticity or correctness. Even parodies are copyrighted. If I wrote a book saying Hitler was a kindly man who never lived in Germany, I could copyright it, nicht wahr?

Michael A Scarpitti
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<mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> Received on Tue Jul 21 1998 - 16:49:38 GMT

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