RE: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-25 Thread Steven H. McCown
On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:49 AM Jesse Stay wrote: IANAL but it *shouldn't* be okay to download movies and music that weren't intended to be downloaded for free, but it *is* legal. Fair use doctrine... Actually, fair use doctrine is *not* applied to downloads. Fair use only says that

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-25 Thread Carl Youngblood
On Oct 25, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Steven H. McCown wrote: The new Boy Scout patch may serve Hollywood, but it also serves to educate in an effort to teach Scouts about the current law. The patch will help teach scouts how not to make their parents liable for large sums of money. The purpose of

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-25 Thread Jesse Stay
On 10/25/06, Jay Askren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we need to have someone create another mailing list covering intellectual property, copyright law, and what is legal and what is not. This topic seems to come up a lot, and I it seems that people really like to argue about it. It would be

RE: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-25 Thread Steven H. McCown
25, 2006 8:44 AM To: ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge With apologies to Manfred, I have to clarify a couple of things here :-) Note that IANAL, but I have read the law and I have been following these issues

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-24 Thread Steven McCown
]] On Behalf Of Bryan Murdock Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:51 PMTo: LDS Open Source SoftwareSubject: Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge The movie industry has developed the curriculum. Oh good, an impartial and fair party, experts in law and the constitution

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-24 Thread Steven McCown
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bryan Murdock Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:51 PM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge The movie industry has developed the curriculum. Oh good

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-24 Thread Shawn Willden
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 05:38, Steven McCown wrote: Even if you think that it *should* be okay to illegally download music and videos, at the moment it is not. At this moment it's also illegal to watch legally-purchased DVDs on Linux. Or to rip them and store them on a MythTV video jukebox

RE: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-24 Thread Manfred Riem
, Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.manorrock.org/ Founding Java Champion -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Willden Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:09 AM To: ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-24 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2006 October 24 Tuesday 01:37:59 PM -0700, Manfred Riem wrote: Bringing this badge up was not the thing that was off-topic to me. The discussion about what copyright should be was. Others have already given reasons why many of us would be interested in this since the Church is a major

RE: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-23 Thread Steven H. McCown
and that would be a good thing. Wouldn't it? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Murdock Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:51 PM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-23 Thread Thomas Haws
: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bryan MurdockSent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:51 PMTo: LDS Open Source SoftwareSubject: Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge The movie industry has developed the curriculum.Oh good, an impartial and fair party

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-23 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2006 October 23 Monday 01:34:29 AM -0600, Steven H. McCown wrote: I guess they feel that they are losing money to the internet culture and that they need to re-educate people that it is wrong to steal. While 30 years ago, truly honest people would never have dared photocopy a book (even

[Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-22 Thread Steven H. McCown
BSA is, rightfully, teaching Scouts to respect the copyrights of others. Here's an article: (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Scouts_Piracy_Patch.html) Since you have to visit an actual movie studio, you kind of need to live in LA, though... One more thing to add to

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-22 Thread John Harrison
I would hope that members of this this would sign up to be instructors for this activity patch in their wards and teach scouts about fair use, first sale doctrine, how DRM circumvents your rights, and about alternatives to traditional copyright such as Creative Commons materials and Open Source

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-22 Thread Bryan Murdock
The movie industry has developed the curriculum. Oh good, an impartial and fair party, experts in law and the constitution. :-P Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss