Re: Reclassification - Wordperfect

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Arkain wrote:

> Not quite true...
>
> A copy referenced a "printed duplication." This is the reason why the
> explanitory preface to the Copyright Act mentions photocopiers. Printed
> copies and phonorecords (aka LPs & "vinyl") are immutable mediums. The
> statement that the copy must be "sufficiently permanent or stable to permit
> it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of
> more than transitory duration" specifically eliminates non-permanent
> mediums.
>
> A permanent medium is one that must be either damaged or destroyed  in order
> to remove the work it contains. The reason paper is still considered a
> permanent medium is because the process of removing the print usually
> damages the paper. Since hard drives and other such dynamic mediums can be
> erased without damaging or destroying the medium, they cannot be considered
> "sufficiently permanent or stable."
>
> I suppose that the only real "fly in the ointment" to the argument I've
> presented would be how the courts would choose to define "transitory." I
> guess that's why we have "case law". ;-)
>

The only fly in the ointment is that you have evidently been smoking some Wacky
Weed! Cases have already been adjudicated, and those making copies illegally
have been fined, so if your spurious idea had any weight at all, it would have
been used, and if it had been used, it didn't fly.

Roy

>
> Arkain
>
> "Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote in message
> news:uAFj5.23$Sz3.458820@dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net...
> > No flaw, and not a low blow, at all!
> >
> > "A work is 'fixed' in a tangible medium of expression when its embodiment
> in
> > a copy or phonorecord, by or under the authority of the author, is
> > sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced,
> > or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration."
> > [from the Copyright Act]
> >
> > Thus, all the work on your hard drive that has the requisite originality
> is
> > copyrighted from the moment of fixation.