At 09:00 AM 6/30/1998 -0400, Susan Duncan so eloquently stated:
>Javilk wrote:
>
>> So? How do you think most of us learned how HTML works? We took a
>> page, saved it, tinkered with it, and saw how the tags did what they did.
>> Tags are like a simple form. they are not content.
>
>It's one thing to look at the source to see how a particular element was
>done. It's another to take an entire page and just change some of the info
>here and there, which is what was suggested in the article.
>
>> The rule, I believe, is 20 percent content before copyright
>> infringement can be claimed. This is not even content, it is layout
>> information. Lots of books copy each other's layout.
>
>Code is content even if it is not seen unless a "view source" is used. There
>is creativity in layout and that is copyrightable. (check out the C-Net site
>for their notice)
>
>> But to just copy and tinker with a layout, that is done all the time
>> by those new to HTML, or any other word processor.
>
>It's one thing to "play" with code, and quite another to post
your stolen code
>on the web.
>
We are having this discussion on E-Marketing Digest. A list
member had her entire site stolen, and it was put up on another
similar site. The content used was something written by the
original site owner (Nancy Roebke). The theft took place and was
brought to her attention. After a serious of correspondence back
and forth the offending party finally removed the material (Nancy
thinks). It is hard to tell, because now there is a "members
only" section on the site.
Theft of intellectual property is a major problem.
George
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