On 04/06/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/06/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The legal interpretation of having material on
the internet is that
you are "publishing" it each and every time to each and every person
who comes along and requests the file (at least, this seems to be the
dominant view at the moment) - as such, each time someone requests a
copy of the file *you* make a copy of it and give it to them.
Interesting. Has RIAA not been chasing leeches as well as seeds?
I believe there is an offence of knowingly pinching material you know
to be copyrighted, too :-)
[My following of and-this-constitutes-publication is mostly from the
defamation end, not the copyright end, but it's all publication
liability when you get down to it...]
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk