On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:23:11AM -0500, David Phillips wrote: > You shouldn't trust legal advice given to you on a mailing list. Legal > questions need to be answered by your attorney. (And, no, Asking Slashdot > is not an acceptable alternative, though many seem to believe otherwise.) True. > Munir Nassar writes: > > yes the original author owns the copyright. So does Arthur C. Clark > > own the copyright on the books he publishes. This does not mean that > > i cannot store the book that i bought in my library for 50 years. And > > if i so chose i could also have a small bon fire in the backyard and > > burn the book. > > But ACC does NOT have the right or the option to ask me to do either > > of those. > > You're comparing apples to oranges. Storing the book is not publishing it. > You have every right to do what you want with your copy. But you cannot > make copies and publish them. Oh, yes I can. I can quote your whole e-mail in a reply to a mailing list. And no, appending a fifteen page disclaimer to your message won't change that a bit. Do not post if you don't know/agree to the consequences. florin -- "NT is to UNIX what a doughnut is to a particle accelerator." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030430/5a30d31b/attachment.pgp