COPYRIGHT LAW AND LIBEL LAWS: WAS Re: The Longespée parentag

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Bill Arnold

COPYRIGHT LAW AND LIBEL LAWS: WAS Re: The Longespée parentag

Legg inn av Bill Arnold » 07 des 2007 16:56:02

Will Johnson: You are confusing two issues in this discussion. If I write a
five-hundred word essay about *why* Sir Francis Drake had an illegitimate
child John Browne who then went to Virginia, that is my copy and holds
my copyright.

BA: Assuming you are correct although *not* clear in the above statement,
precisely what do you think you are saying? Do you have the *idea* protected
so that you can sue in a court of law for copyright infringement? If not the
latter, which seems to be the position of TAF, then please rephrase it. And
you write I am confusing two issue and then address only one. What is the
other?

Will Johnson: If someone else merely states in brief "Sir Francis Drake had an
illegitimate child John Browne born about 1620 of Virginia" they are not copying my
copy. Only my idea. They are not quoting me verbatim, not any part of my copy
since I never said exactly that. Are you stating that this brief statement would violate
my Copyright on my five-hundred word essay?

BA: You are suggesting something, what? Answer your own question? And be specific
to the multi-part issues in the question which should have been a statement.

Will Johnson: I am suggesting that Person A can summarize what Person B has writen
and not be in violation of copyright law. You should know Bill, in
addition, that there was a recent case involving Dan Brown where the
suit was addressing exactly your points. A much better example.

BA: International *copyright* and *libel* laws are
not uniform, but vary from nation to nation, and
some countries, i.e., China, violate them religiously.
So: for the naifs on gen-medieval who have not the
legimate right to put *Esquire* after their name,
I suggest you seek advice of counsel, immediately:
if you persist in ad hominem attacks on others,
and if you persist in theft of other author’s
copyrighted material. There are many exceptions
to the laws of copyright and libel, and in the
former the blantant *bending of the rules* are
notorious in three areas germane to this forum:
scholarship, satire and parody. If you did not/
do not know what I am writing about, I suggest
you seek advice of counsel, immediately!

Bill, Esquire

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