>>> On 4/7/2010 at 09:33 AM, George Henke <gahe...@gmail.com> wrote: > But, I do not think the copyright would be honored or violated since they > have made the same material available in a Redbook (See prior post from Alan > Schenck). > > When the owner makes the material public, then the copyright law does not > apply.
Incorrect. The author has to explicitly release a work to the public domain, and I doubt very much that happened. If IBM or an author makes a work freely downloadable, that's fine, but it doesn't mean the same content in a different work suddenly becomes public domain. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
