On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:39:29PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Regardless, arguing that it can be difficult to detect or prove > copying is a totally separate issue from whether copyright law > prohibits the copying in question. No, but comparison of two works is an indispensible test for establishment of originality. However, I'll acknowledge that "originality" is completely irrelevant to the forces that shape copyright law today, even though it was central in the past. Indeed, the forces that shape copyright law today seem utterly incapable of originality. Well, perhaps, one day, when our genotypes are copyrighted and we are prosecuted for carrying around billions of unlicensed copies, we'll wake up and smell the bullshit that is intellectual property law. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux | soul, then believe; if you wish to branden@debian.org | be a devotee of truth, then http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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