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[Doug Tooley]

Rod-

I'm glad you feel the way you do.  My point though was about litigation,
not the particulars of this case. 

Not only have you accused me of advocating for violation of intellectual
property rights when I have done nothing of the case you do it freely in
your own work.  The website design is largely drawn from the marketplace
prototype site, from criteria I had a lot to do with creating, on the
Webmasters ad hoc list.  Their are very minor differences between the
marketplace prototype and the final design, though those differences do
make the site a bit more graphical they are also less dynamically
compatible with text only browsing.

You, and Mr. Sparks, are quite quick to claim credit for the site.  Upon
a deeper look it is clear that the 'attacks' from you and Mr. Sparks
against my work were nothing more than an effort to steal intellectual
property rights.

So, please, Mr. Clark, just what is the appropriate punishment for your
rightesnouss rag?

-Doug 

 On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rod Clark wrote:

> > There are many costs to maintaining freedom on the web and
> > SCN should not be afraid to take on their share of them, nor
> > to generate publicity from same.
> 
> Doug, 
> 
> Whose freedom? People who hope they can make a living creating
> things, or parasites who refuse to respect anything at all
> about the idea of copyright? "Fair use" has been a gray area
> since before people started using ditto fluid and mimeograph
> stencils. But reprinting the Times articles in their entirety
> (while conveniently omitting the copyright notices) isn't a gray
> area. It's a violation of copyright, and it falls under the
> "what you can get away with" rule instead of the "fair use"
> rule. 
> 
> I'm disappointed that people at SCN seem to consider this a
> freedom issue. It's nothing but stealing people's intellectual
> property whole (the work by which they make their livelihoods),
> which is what copyright laws were first enacted to keep
> scoundrels from doing a few centuries ago. 
> 
> Promoting the complete and unmitigated theft of intellectual
> property isn't what SCN should be about, although promoting
> limited and reasonable fair use of intellectual property is
> something that SCN could do. 
> 
> Keep in mind that each Information Provider on SCN has a
> copyright in the material it publishes, unless it specifically
> waives that right. (Eat the State! and a few others do waive
> their copyright, by the way. Feel free to redistribute their
> material.)
> 
> Rod Clark
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