Fran, calling someone a thief before you truly know that a theft has been committed can possibly land you with a slander suit. If you know copyright then you should know that it is allowed to copy for personal use without needing permission. There are exceptions, one is if there is a statement at the beginning of the book that specifically states that no copying of any part of the book is allowed. Permission to copy is needed when one is to use whatever is being copied for non personal use, say to publish in another book. So perhaps you would like to go over the German copyright laws and see if truly a theft has occurred. http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/UrhG.htm If so, then accuse to your hearts content.
To the list as a whole, I have already heard enough on copyrights on another list. It wasn't the subject that irritated me, especially when someone who is a lawyer and deals with copyright laws explained it in simple terms that I could understand but the self righteous folks who took the extreme sides of the subject. Am I condoning copyright infringement NO! Is the situation that has caused Fran to cry copyright infringement really infringement? Not from what I have come to understand about copyright. This is all that I'm going to say on this and will be deleting future posts on this. De _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
