Re: [Thinkpad] copyright

In message <006f01c64d40$a30ece20$0200000a@dell>, "Deanna Berman" writes:
>One thing to keep in mind is that copyright law is all about the right of an
>author of intellectual property to profit from its use. Anyone posting to a
>publicly-available list -- and who wants to mount a credible legal threat to
>a cross-poster -- would not only have to include notice to readers that the
>author prohibits such use, but would also have to be ready to prove the
>economic damages the author suffered from the re-posting that would not have
>been suffered if it had not been re-posted.

WRONG WRONG WRONG!

I'm not a lawyer, but PLEASE talk to a lawyer before making crazy talk.

-s
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Received on Tue Mar 21 19:00:43 2006