R.A.C;
Same question:
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy A. Crabtree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Mathematical Roots of J & more musings
I ee you have a thorn in your side as well as your signature ...
It is not so much copyright _law_ I would worry about as it is the issue
_copyright_:
Did you write it? If not, who did?
Did you ask permssion to copy it? Get it in written form, signed?
If not, flip a coin: you are on your own.
As to your mor egeneric question, it would depend on the impact to J itself
as to how relevan it is:
I would rather see J contiue than not, which means I want the money
involved with J to go to its originators as _they_ choose, not me or any one
else.
On 6/20/06, Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok;
How much of this has to do with J?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Miller, Raul D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: [Jgeneral] Mathematical Roots of J & more musings
Brian Schott wrote:
> I too, am no expert, but wonder if this more liberal
> interpretation is correct.
It's an approximation, which is valid in some circumstances, but it
is not totally accurate.
Copyright law, in and of itself, grants quite a bit of control over
the rights to make copies to the person who owns the copyright.
This part of the law is strict. (The legal jargon is "irreparable
harm" -- a judge can give you a preliminary injunction to stop
whatever copying or distributing you are doing, before the case
goes to trial, if the issues are clear enough. If you are a
business, this can be a very serious economic penalty.)
However, almost all court cases involving copyright also involve
contract law. Contract law mostly concerns itself with costs and
who owes who what. When copyright permission is granted, it's
usually granted in the context of a contract, and you can be in
violation of the contract -- you might not have lost the right to
make copies of someone else's copyrighted material, but you might
have to pay more for them than what you have already paid.
That said: you don't have to be making a profit to cause an operating
loss for someone else. If your activities are causing problems for
someone else a loss, you can still be liable for damages under
contract law.
And so on and so forth, ... there are many other things which might
be issues, if the people involved disagree about them.
If you don't want to go the expensive route (hiring a lawyer and so
on), the best thing to do is: make sure that you have clear permission
for whatever copies you make or give away, and if the copyright holder
is unhappy with you, try and do everything you can to avoid ever having
to deal with that copyright holder or the associated copyrighted
material. (And if that's not possible -- if the associated material
is that pervasive -- there's probably a good chance it's not
copyrightable.)
That said, within a specific and relatively unchanging field (such
as photography) there are usually a well understood set of standard
practices that most people follow. And, for the most part, those
are what's important.
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Raul
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