Re: Peter Erlich Re Copy write?
Donald Galt
Thursday, December 5, 2002 9:30 PM
On 4 Dec 2002 at 23:32, Val Golding wrote:
Though Peter and I both live in Intellectual Property Litigationland, copyright
elsewhere can be very tenacious as well. In particular, crown copyrights seem
to go on forever.
But there are two questions here: 1 - are you potentially harming somebody by
broadcasting something that they might get some reward from in the future, and
2 - are you likely to face action. In this case the practical answer to both
the ethical question (1) and the legal one (2) would be "not bl**dy likely." If
Greg wanted to include the maps in a website, he might want to make greater
efforts to contact SPER, a more likely copyright holder than the Twentyman
estate. But non-profit sharing with a closed group should be less fraught (got
the spelling write there!) with complications. Particularly since Greg will
obviously take pains with his attributions. Absent protests to the contrary, he
could even argue that propogating Mr. Twentyman's work is doing him a service.
Be it noted, of course, that (1) I don't make the rules around here and (2) I'm
writing as somebody who would really like to see the maps in question.
DG
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The original copyright law provide a 17-year period, renewable once for an
additional 17 years. However, our dear friends in Washington have just
modified
that to 50 years or some such ridiculous figure to accomodate Disney's Micky
Mouse copyright.
Though Peter and I both live in Intellectual Property Litigationland, copyright
elsewhere can be very tenacious as well. In particular, crown copyrights seem
to go on forever.
But there are two questions here: 1 - are you potentially harming somebody by
broadcasting something that they might get some reward from in the future, and
2 - are you likely to face action. In this case the practical answer to both
the ethical question (1) and the legal one (2) would be "not bl**dy likely." If
Greg wanted to include the maps in a website, he might want to make greater
efforts to contact SPER, a more likely copyright holder than the Twentyman
estate. But non-profit sharing with a closed group should be less fraught (got
the spelling write there!) with complications. Particularly since Greg will
obviously take pains with his attributions. Absent protests to the contrary, he
could even argue that propogating Mr. Twentyman's work is doing him a service.
Be it noted, of course, that (1) I don't make the rules around here and (2) I'm
writing as somebody who would really like to see the maps in question.
DG
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