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Posted by Bill on 02/07/07 15:42
Which fact do I have wrong?
With all due respect-- and I do respect your expertise as a lawyer-- I
think you missed the part where I said I'm not talking about the law--
but about what a reasonable person might regard as "copying" or
"stealing". My point is that culture is enlivened in a healthy sense by
a degree of cross-pollination and appropriation of artifacts of popular
culture, and an excessive attitude of protection can inhibit the
development of creative and interesting works.
Where I did say something about the law, I agreed with you. My examples
were illustrations of how some stealing is always allowed, and you
made it an issue of semantics by pointing out that the correct word
could have been something like "appropriate" (as a verb) or "borrow" or
"reuse" instead. Point taken.
PTravel wrote:
> "Bill" <trash@chromehorse.net> wrote in message
> news:2NSdnZHeNfzEflXYnZ2dnUVZ_rSjnZ2d@golden.net...
>
>>I'm not mistaken. I'm not speaking as a lawyer about the law. You are,
>>and I'm happy to leave you to it. (Which is not so say that citizens don't
>>have a right to have an opinion about the law.)
>
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