On 30, July 1998, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Joseph C. McGuire <joseph[_at_]sos.net> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't broadcasting publishing?
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> No. The heart of publication is distribution of copies, or making
> arrangments to do so. Public display or performance is not
> publication.
Suppose I go to hear Rodney Dangerfield live and take down all his jokes (not by phono recording, but by writing). I then go out and publish this as a joke book, without attribution or permission. Is "telling" a joke an act of publishing? Or is the joke (which presumably was written down by Mr Rodney somewhere) protected as an unpublished work?
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Received on Fri Jul 31 1998 - 13:44:52 GMT
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