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Re: Copyright [cgf, please comment]


Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
[snip]
> I am not sure about it.  The point of dispute is someone taking prior work
> and rewriting and inserting his copyright notice and authorship,
> intentionally
> omitting and refusing to incorporate major part of existing work which
> points to that his work is borrowed from others.  That is a copyright
> infringment itself.

Could anyone who wants to indulge in completely useless and
damned annoying personal sniping please resort to doing so in
private? As much as I enjoy knowing what is planned for the
future of the project, this sort of infantile behavior gets on my
nerves.

Copyright in the US protects the presentation of a work, *NOT*
the informational content. Duplicating the informational content
in a new presentation results in, guess what, a new copyrightable
work. I believe Harold has pointed this out half a dozen times
already, but it does not seem to have registered.

See: <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#wnp>

Chris

~~~~~~
Lawyer? heck no, literate.


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