[Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

[wjhonson at aol.com]

I think everyone is probably a bit tired of this topic so this will be my last response.

You keep positing that someone is espousing that the museums have to actively participate in providing copies of something to someone.? Has somebody claimed that?? If they did, it wasn't me.? I have never claimed, and wouldn't claim, under any sort of copyright issue, that the holder of anything is required to do anything at all.? Or has any obligation, legal or moral to do anything.? The "doing" on their part is an active participation and I've never claimed that the museum has to be active in any regard in this issue.

What I have claimed is that the purported claimant, cannot stop a seizure.? If I take, without permission, without asking, without requiring anything from you.? Just take, you cannot claim that I've in violation of some perceived copyright.? That is quite different from stating that they must provide the material to anyone, or are required to, or should feel required to.

W.J.