The Copyright Act supports the GPL

2004-01-28 Thread Russell McOrmond
(Changing subject line -- I don't want to be seen as agreeing with the old one ;-) On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, daniel wallace wrote: It does not. The GPL imposes a condition on anyone who wishes to make a derivative work, viz. that the derivative work, if distributed at all, be distributed

Re: The Copyright Act supports the GPL

2004-01-28 Thread jcowan
Russell McOrmond scripsit: If I take a Hollywood movie, create a laugh track where I think something funny happened, it is not my right to distribute the new combined work. Nobody disputes that. But Daniel is claiming that if you *do* in fact have permission to create the movie + laugh

Re: The Copyright Act supports the GPL

2004-01-28 Thread Russell McOrmond
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell McOrmond scripsit: If I take a Hollywood movie, create a laugh track where I think something funny happened, it is not my right to distribute the new combined work. Nobody disputes that. But Daniel is claiming that if you *do*