In a message dated 1/15/2009 5:56:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, tracy.poff@gmail.com writes:
My inexpert opinion is that convincing someone that they are required to pay you to use the material bearing the false copyright notice would be fraudulent intent, though I could be wrong.>>
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Thank you for the text of that. Don't you think it's a bit odd to claim, that someone can steal the work of someone else for no payment whatsoever ? Copyright or no?
If I work, and place a claim of copyright on my work, and you just take it, I really doubt that a *credible* excuse for theft is "he was claiming copyright without a real copyright".
It's still theft of the work of someone else's effort.
It takes me a few dozen hours to scan the pages of a public domain work. I have a perfect right to expect payment for someone else to use it. That capitalism.
Will
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2009/1/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
It takes me a few dozen hours to scan the pages of a public domain work. I have a perfect right to expect payment for someone else to use it. That capitalism.
No. Under capitalism you have the right to expect what someone else is prepared to pay you. If that is zero then it is zero. Since under US law sweat of the brow does not give something copyright protection if your scans are publicly available it is rather hard to get people to pay anything for them.