In a message dated 1/15/2009 9:46:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
geniice(a)gmail.com writes:
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.>>
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If you take a chemical formula and make your own drug out of it, fine.
If you walk into a pharmacy and say "Give me your aspirin because the
formula is in the public domain, the will laugh at you or call the police."
Walking onto a website and saying, well since the *underlying object* that
you are photographing is itself in the public domain, I think I'll just steal
your image of it, is the same example as trying to take a drug where the
formula itself is public domain.
The drug thing is just a bad example. It is not nearly close enough to the
issue.
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