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To: MadIvan
It doesn't matter whether you're making any money from it. That's not the point. The reason copyright exists is to provide the copyright holder with the EXCLUSIVE right to reproduce and distribute the work at hand. You have infringed the Times' rights. And that IS the point.

I'm not trying to be an ass about this. It's just that a conservative forum is that last place I'd expect to see property rights be ignored or scoffed at.

Also, we should all have a selfish motive here: The more that content providers see their work being copied and published elsewhere on the Web, the less free -- in both senses of the word -- the Web will become. As readers, we don't want to see the day when news and publishing are not as easily accessible on the Internet. We've got it good now -- let's not screw it up by taking incentives away from content providers.
20 posted on 02/01/2003 4:55:32 PM PST by wizzler
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To: wizzler
If we extrapolate your theory to its conclusion then no one should be posting any articles from any paper here.

In this instance, the Times is not regularly sold in the United States. It just isn't. As such, no money is being lost, because papers with these articles wouldn't be sold anyway.

I have to wonder, given this, why you decided to open fire on me, rather than someone posting from an American publication, which could conceivably lose much more revenues from someone posting on here.

Ivan

22 posted on 02/01/2003 4:59:59 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: wizzler
It's just that a conservative forum is that last place I'd expect to see property rights be ignored or scoffed at.

Copyright is not a property right. So that solves your problem.

62 posted on 03/05/2003 12:59:56 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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