On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Timothy Phillips <hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> wrote:
>
> A world of copyright is like a world in which,
> when I buy a tomato, I may eat the tomato, but
> I may not plant its seeds and grow my own tomatoes
> for market.
A commercially grown tomato is probably a hybrid. Created by someone, a hybrid is sterile. You can plant away. Nothing will happen.
In the world of copyright, you can legally plant someone's ideas but not their expression. If you are writing for an academic discipline, you are expected to acknowledge ideas and to signal (limited) copied expression with quotation marks. If you want to copy for commercial purposes, you may just have to get permission.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
<70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com>
Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 11:59:26 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Mar 26 2007 - 00:35:35 GMT