On 2/3/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I fully agree that this gives us more wiggle room, and I believe that we should be advocating for similar provisions in other countries as well.
Well we should try to be as compliant as is possible and as free as possible. Of course. My response was not meant to be normative, just to imply that at least in the US the operations of enforcing digital copyrights work a bit differently and are, in a surprising way, a bit more sane in this particular area.
True enough, but I think that whether their claim to copyright on a
specific item is valid or pure buncombe is a different issue. For the purpose of this thread I'm willing to concede that they do have a legal copyright as claimed. This allows us to separate copyright validity from unscrupulous methods of enforcing copyrights.
I of course agree. I tried to infer that the comment was semi-tangential by putting into parentheses.
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