Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cubsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!rocky2!cubsvax!peters From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Theft of Copyrighted Material Message-ID: <185@cubsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 10:21:00 EST Article-I.D.: cubsvax.185 Posted: Wed Mar 21 10:21:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 07:25:28 EST References: <6915@unc.UUCP>, <28900002@orstcs.UUCP> Organization: Columbia Univ Biology, New York City Lines: 18 I'm not sure which posting the original complainer was complaining about -- but it might have been my request in net.music for the words to the first verse of "Coca Cola Cowboy." In the request I gave the words I *do* know, question-marks for blanks, and asked anyone who does know them to mail them to me (no response yet). If this was the motivation for the complaint, then the complaint is baseless. The issue is whether the copyright owner was deprived of income because of the posting. A little thought reveals not. It seems to me to be perfectly OK to ask people for words to a song, rather than go out and buy the sheet music or record -- and I believe it's legally OK, too. Then again, maybe he was complaining about something else... but the complaint is pretty cryptic without a reference. {philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!peters Peter S. Shenkin Dept of Biol. Sci.; Columbia Univ.; New York, N. Y. 10027; 212-280-5517