Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!leeway From: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: "thieves" Message-ID: <920@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Mar-84 16:10:22 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.920 Posted: Sat Mar 17 16:10:22 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 08:16:52 EST References: <699@eosp1.UUCP> Reply-To: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Distribution: net.general Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 18 In copyright law, violations are tested for two things: damage and malice. If you can't prove commercial or personal damage, then you can only collect in case of actual malice. The case of circulating copyrighted material over the net is not usually therefore a question of violating the copyright law. It is a question of violating the moral right the copyright law itself was created to protect. The person who creates something (or owns it in general): Has a right to sell it. Or to give it away. Or to destroy it. Or to sit on it like a dog in the manger. You're welcome to copy the idea.