Re: License for fortunes?
Carlos writes:
> Well, technically, I didn't copy it verbatim, I modified it to suit the
> fortunes format. Would that still be copyrighted?
Everything is always copyrighted. Copyright is compulsory. In any case, I
think that the only way you could avoid infringing his copyright would be
to edit your own collection, using his only as a source for quotations. I
don't think that modifying the format qualifies.
> Quite frankly, this (copyright over a compilation) is somewhat dumb (in
> this case, at least).
Much of copyright law is dumb. We still have to deal with it.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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