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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
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Posted: Sat Mar 17 16:10:22 1984
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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.