On 1 Mar 2012 08:21:46 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >17 USC 106: "Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under >this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the >following: >(1)to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; >(2)to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;" >quoted from http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106 > >Is anyone here using an IBM mainframe for personal work? The rest of us >work(ed) for companies which probably have legal departements. That is where >this discussion belongs. Or, since mainframes are probably used in some >hospitals and health insurance companies, we can also discuss the virtues and >limitations of self-performed amputations.
Although I am semi-retired (will take contracts) and probably long past any statute of limitations, I have used as is or modified SAMPLIB members, placing them in production and in addition I may well have put said modifications on the MICHMODS, JES3 or CBT tapes. For those of you still active, not using SAMPLIB members could be a drastic change in the way things are done. I believe the intent of those members is that they be used as templates for organizations to customize the system and that sharing can be a part of that customization. Since I am fairly certain that there are installations within IBM and other vendors that have copies of various MODS tapes and/or their successors, this probably is a non-issue. However, I'm just a bumped up DOS360 COBOL payroll programmer, not a lawyer. Clark Morris > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:52:04 AM >Subject: Re: Originality (was: Duplicating SYSOUT ...) > >In <[email protected]>, on 02/28/2012 > at 05:02 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said: > >>Creating derivative works is a right reserved to the copyright >>holder. > >In what country? Do you have a citation for the section of the US Code >that prohibits creating, as opposed to distributing or performing, a >copyrighted work? > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
