On Friday 08 June 2018 13:34:44 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net>: > > On Friday 08 June 2018 08:18:19 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Are news servers guaranteed to carry the X-Copyright header in all > >> transmissions? If not, the copyright notice isn't part of the > >> message, and is most likely unenforceable. > > > > As the courts have so found when this has come up over the last 30 > > years. Basically, its just some newly minted lawyer trying to earn > > his place at the feeding trough. > > Copyrights exist whether they are declared or not. > > If I publish a poem or, say, a Python application on Usenet, you will > need my permission to distribute it. Of course, its dissemination via > Usenet and remailers is ultimately *me* distributing my work. > > In one Usenet discussion I published my translation of a Finnish > Christmas carol. The author of the original lyrics had died more than > 70 years before so that was ok. However, the melody was still under > copyright so I didn't have a right to *explain* in any direct manner > how the melody went. > > Luckily, someone had posted the song on Youtube so I could provide a > link (although even that could be considered criminal in some > jurisdictions). > > > Marko > > PS IMO copyright laws should be abolished altogether. At the very > least one should pay for copyright protection. One €1 for the first > year, €2 for the second, €4 for the third and so on exponentially.
I rather like that idea. Unforch, who would be in charge of keeping the books uptodate? The USTPO? Of course that would expand another guvmnt agencies payroll x10, and its a waste of taxpayer dollars since Albert retired anyway. Here in the hew hess aye, we originally had a copyright term of 7 years, renewable just once for another 7. I will date myself by saying I can actually remember those days. But then Disney started buying senators and congressmen, and we now have this asinine lifetime +70 years just to keep Mickey Mouse and Company's (oh, and don't forget a widow named Cher) income rolling in. Thats the sort of stuff usually found, warm and squishy, on the ground behind the male of the bovine specie. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
