Does any one know for sure if putting screen shots of Sam
coupe games on my Web site is breaking copyright law.
I think it is but not sure.
Can't see anyone objecting about screen shots :)
Colin.
Cookie wrote:
99% of the people who post there are rabid GNU followers, who want
everything to be free, regardless of reality.
GNU followers don't want everything to be free - they want there to be a
free software alternative to everything. Which is entirely different.
I should have known an
From: Fred Bloggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not ignoring, badgering, or forcing copyright - merely agreeing with
Colin.
Why is this the 2nd time i have been mentioned in this discussion when I haven't
said anything to do with it ?
As I said in my earlier post it was Gavin Smith that posted up
On Monday 19 Aug 2002 9:43 am, you wrote:
Cookie wrote:
99% of the people who post there are rabid GNU followers, who want
everything to be free, regardless of reality.
GNU followers don't want everything to be free - they want there to be a
free software alternative to everything. Which
Andrew Collier wrote:
implies that sharing copies is somehow illegitimate -
Come come andrew, that's a cheap trick - taking words out of context.
Quote from the link given on that page:
If you don't believe that illegal copying is just like kidnaping and murder,
you might prefer not to use
Whoops!
Sorry Colin, I got you mixed up with Gavin!
I offer you my humblest apologies.
From: Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Copyright etc
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:38:43 +0100
From: Fred Bloggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm
-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Copyright etc
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:12:26 +0100
At 17:03 15/08/02, you wrote:
I've been a bit quiet lately but I thought I'd just chirp in - I
support your plan Colin, copyrighted material retains copyright,
but if no-one
can
I'm not ignoring, badgering, or forcing copyright - merely agreeing with
Colin.
I don't know who or what slashdot monkeys are, so I don't really understand
your point.
From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Copyright etc
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:42:07 +0100 Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's two camps in the copyright arguement - those who don't give a
monkeys about copyright on SAM software, see it as a dead machine and
think all its software should be free. Then there's the people who stick
to
- Original Message -
From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Copyright etc
I *really* hate to bring this up again, but I need to ask your
opinions...I'll paste the below and I'd be very interested in your
opinions
Am Fre, 2002-08-16 um 10.18 schrieb Ian Spencer:
- Original Message -
From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Copyright etc
I *really* hate to bring this up again, but I need to ask your
opinions...I'll
-To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Copyright etc
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:12:26 +0100
At 17:03 15/08/02, you wrote:
I've been a bit quiet lately but I thought I'd just chirp in - I
support
your plan Colin, copyrighted material retains copyright, but if no-one
can
I'm okay , do what you need to do, however please be aware that other
companys have some copyrights in some of my stuff
All I say is it has to include my name etc
C
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Gavin Smith
Sent: 15 August 2002
At 15:42 15/08/02, you wrote:
I *really* hate to bring this up again, but I need to ask your
opinions...I'll paste the below and I'd be very interested in your
opinions either on or off list, especially if you've ever developed or
published SAM software in the past. It's in relation to the
I've been a bit quiet lately but I thought I'd just chirp in - I support
your plan Colin, copyrighted material retains copyright, but if no-one can
be bothered to enforce it, even if you seek them out for two months, ignore
it.
Erm... the plan about the Copyright
At 17:03 15/08/02, you wrote:
I've been a bit quiet lately but I thought I'd just chirp in - I support
your plan Colin, copyrighted material retains copyright, but if no-one can
be bothered to enforce it, even if you seek them out for two months, ignore
it.
Erm... the
On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 05:12 pm, Howard Price wrote:
Gavin and the SC newsletter hasn't been eaten by giant
anteaters??!!! Don't believe you!
We were, it's just I was easier to digest and shit back out so here I am.
On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 03:50 pm, Chris White wrote:
I'm okay , do what you need to do, however please be aware that other
companys have some copyrights in some of my stuff
All I say is it has to include my name etc
Well, the software would remain unchanged and there are columns in
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:42:07 +0100, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I *really* hate to bring this up again, but I need to ask your
opinions...I'll paste the below and I'd be very interested in your
opinions either on or off list, especially if you've ever developed or
published SAM
At 11:43 pm +0100 9/4/99, Chris White wrote:
This is an extract from a online Law site
In many cases, unlicensed copies of computer programs, including copies
that have been downloaded from an IAP server, cannot be executed without
appropriate serial number, or unless the program is
At 12:02 pm +0100 15/4/99, Aley Keprt wrote:
[Aley - please attribute the messages!! Andrew Collier wrote:]
Nothing in that quote says it is illegal to deprotect software that you
have bought.
Why not? Where is written than you can deprotect the software you have
bought?
I didn't say it was -
Aley said:
p.s. Copyright laws can be a bit different in some countries (e.g. Cuba,
China, Polland)
Sure, but most countries follow the Berne convention of 1967 (or something
like that). China, Russia and a few other places traditionally have not had
copyright; but Russia's picking it up.
At 3:34 am +0100 11/4/99, Simon Cooke wrote:
Hey.. Chris? Maybe this is the right time to unleash your planned changes to
the motorway system on sam-users?
And I didn't know sam-users even _had_ a motorway system!
:)
Andrew
--
| Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a
From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At then end of the day its Illegal to Speed but who sticks below or on the
limit? , from my experince noone (Especially me :) ) , and when they catch
me they prosicute me
And I know for a fact that it's very hard to catch Chris :)
Hey.. Chris? Maybe this is
Hey.. Chris? Maybe this is the right time to unleash your planned
changes to the motorway system on sam-users?
:)
Si
Well it can't be any worse than the plan you had to turn the M60 into a car
park by completely blocking it so that no one could get past.
Not that I'm having a go or
So if a disk has not standard form of information , and anyone but the
copyright owner creates a program to read this they have broken copyright
law?
It depends on what the primary purpose of the program is for. If it's just for
reading protected disks, yes. If it's as an all-purpose copier
At 11:43 pm +0100 9/4/99, Chris White wrote:
This is an extract from a online Law site
In many cases, unlicensed copies of computer programs, including copies
that have been downloaded from an IAP server, cannot be executed without an
appropriate serial number, or unless the program is altered in
So if a disk has not standard form of information , and anyone but the
copyright owner creates a program to read this they have broken
copyright
law?
It depends on what the primary purpose of the program is for. If it's just
for
reading protected disks, yes. If it's as an all-purpose
My view is that it is now impossible for anyone to control piracy.
It's so wide-spread now with CDR (people copying playstation games,
CD-ROM, music, etc), web and ftp sites (offering cracks, etc.), that
it's only a matter of time before the laws will need to be looked at
again - and changed in
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