I would guess the link is 'copyrighted material', or 'intellectual property
rights'.
The simple act of making copyrighted material 'publicly available' WITHOUT
the express permission of the holder of the copyright is illegal, period.
This has been beat to beyond death on this list many times, ad naseum.
To keep it Newton related, how would you expect Mr. Weyer (of Newtscape
fame) to react if you started making the registered version of Newtscape
'publicly available' via your website ??
The morality of it is a personal issue, the legality is a societal issue.
Paul Nuernberger
> From: "Samuel Jacobson" <jacobson98_at_earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:56:10 -0500
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Harry Potter Books
>
>
>
>>
>> It was only -the- most publicized case of 2000.
>> <URL:http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35933,00.html>
>>
>> | Nevertheless I greatly appreciate all of your time and feelings on the
>> | discussion.
>>
>
> While I appreciate the link and, as a scientist, I would be the first to
> say that I have no legal expertise whatsoever, I do not see how a ruling on
> MP3's tranlates to a governing law on e-books. I suppose because of my
> background I would need to see a ruling that either links MP3's to e-books,
> or a specific ruling on e-books itself. Also, please forgive me but I do
> not consider wired.com an authoritative source as I was expecting something
> with what I consider to be a bit more legitamacy. Do you per chance know
> the cite to the court case itself?
>
> Evenso thanks for trying, I appreciate it.
>
> Always,
>
> Sam
>
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