Maurice LING wrote: [snip..] > As Steven mentioned -- anything you can read is copyrighted. The > difference is whether is the copyright effective or enforceable. What do > I mean by this? Without copyright, there will not be plagarism. Ask > yourself this question, can you copy William Shakespeare's MacBeth and > submit it as a literary work for a Master of Literary Arts degree? I > believe the candidate will be expelled from university. William > Shakespeare's MacBeth is still copyrighted work but not "enforceable" > because it is pre-1900's work and the author had been dead for more than > 50 years. Similarly, works in public domain are still copyrighted -- > academically, using work in public domain without attribution (giving > credits in the form of citations) is still plagarism. >
This is very, very incorrect. :-) You're mixing your own moral ethics with an incorrect understanding of what copyright means... Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/index2.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
