On 11 Jul 2005 at 23:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/11/2005 6:17:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Isn't there something illegal or unethical about this? > > > Wait a second. Let's differentiate between "illegal and unethical" on > the one hand, . . .
I differentiated legal from ethical, by using the conjunction "OR". > . . . and the realities of cyberspace on the other. In the > latter case, there might as well be no rules, because there's no way > to enforce them. It's the American Wild West of the 1850s. What are you smoking? The rules of real life still apply. The Internet has not repealed copyright laws. > Think about it for a moment: how many people on this list would feel > comfortable publishing one of their compositions in its entirety on > the internet, even with a big copyright notice in bold at the bottom? > Raise your hands. > > That's what I thought. I already have done so. Nobody cares. And your analogy doesn't work. What you really need as an analogy is: What if somebody else posted your musical composition in its entirety on the Internet with NO COPYRIGHT NOTICE? That's what's going on here, not what you've described. > I'm as unhappy (angry, frustrated, add your own adjective here) as > anybody else about this state of affairs. I grew up in a world where > copyright protection meant something. On the internet you'd be crazy > to think it still does--everything is fair game. So you might as well > not be in denial about it. Just because it's happening does not mean it's right or that there's nothing that can be done about it. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
