In a message dated 1/15/2009 9:25:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, geniice@gmail.com writes:
Sigh. Companies that make generic pharmaceutical are making a product I am free to take, analyse and copy (okey so in reality I'd just look up the expired patent). They cannot control exclussive access to the stuff. And yet they make money.>>
------------------------------------------------- You are copying the formula. You are not stealing the item itself. There is quite a difference, sigh or no sigh.
If you are so worn out by this argument, then stop arguing.
In the case of images, you are not copying a formula, you are copying the item itself.
Next bad example ?
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2009/1/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
You are copying the formula. You are not stealing the item itself. There is quite a difference, sigh or no sigh.
Okey so you consider copying images different to copying formulas? The endpoint of your argument would be that if someone takes a PD image and converts it into SVG it is okey to copy it but if they put it in a raster format it isn't.
Or perhaps you think chemicals are magically different. If the formula is a DNA string I can literally drop it into a machine that will pretty much print it out.
Still another option for people who make money of PD work are the companies that take advantage of the 50 year rule on recorded music in the UK.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:28 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
You are copying the formula. You are not stealing the item itself. There is quite a difference, sigh or no sigh.
If you are so worn out by this argument, then stop arguing.
In the case of images, you are not copying a formula, you are copying the item itself.
You are copying the formula. There is no item itself to be "stolen".
-Matt