Think about what the church might own. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Werner Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:39 AM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] Copyright
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Craig J. Lindstrom wrote: > One of the uses of this software was to digitize a large collection of > books, journal and manuscripts for the Church History Department so they > could publish some material that the Copyright was about to expire. > The current law is something like; "if you don't use the copyrighted > material then the copyright can not be extended". The church desires to > maintain ownership (copyright) of these documents, without copyright law > all these documents would be public property now. Remember there are > more important things than music and the latest video driver when > considering copyright law. I'm not sure I get your point here. These are "historical documents" which I feel are scholarly works which should be available to anybody who wants to read them or research them. The only purpose for copyright or "ownership" of these documents would be to *limit* their distribution. Why would it make one bit of difference to the Church whether these works passed into the public domain, free for all to use, or not? They could still publish the material just as freely as before. ~ ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
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