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From: "aimcompute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: June 8, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: Flash Diffusers & Geekness
> But if the work is not copyrighted, how can it be copyright
infringement?
> From what I understand the work belongs to the corporation not
the
> individual(s). In that case one could argue that taking a
picture of
> virtually anything is copyright infringement because it is
someones
> handiwork...
If they commissioned the work, they can give you permission to
copy it. If they just bought it off the street, so to say, then
they can't. The company would own this work for hire, (at least
under Canadian law) the same way they own the creations of the
chef under their employ.
>
> Just a question I have wondered about... Public Libraries have
to be the
> biggest, most blatant violators of the spirit of the copyright
laws. I
> appreciate them, but the authors & artists are potentially
losing billions
> of dollars because of this sort of "communism".
There is no law against loaning out books and such. Only copying
them. Even then, the fair use clause can be invoked many times.
William Robb
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