Posted by jeremy on 12/05/06 16:53

"Bill" <trash@christian-horizons.org> wrote in message
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>
> The most ridiculous idea to come out of the digital age is that copyright
> is "absolute". It is not, never has been, and never was intended to be.

That argument may express your sentiments, but it is legally unsound.

Let me get this straight:

You want to be allowed to lift someone else's images off of web sites and
re-post them on other sites of your choice? Perhaps you want to alter them
or try to improve them first? Ever hear of a "Derivative Copy?" The
copyright law addresses that.

Who has conferred upon you the right to take someone else's intellectual
property and to recycle it as you see fit, without the creator's knowledge
or permission? Where in the copyright law does it say that the right to
reproduce the work of another is not absolute?

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