Re: Archiving old magazines on website

["John Burns" <joobs@grizo.free-onlineNOJUNK.co.uk>]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:07:27 GMT, Lee Hart wrote:

> Actually, the company I worked for got it. I simplified the story to keep it

:( Ain't that allways the way

> > Publish and be damned is an old saying but when it involves copyright
> > material it usually ends in (the publisher) being damned poor.
> 
> It's become a very complicated situation. The original intent of the
> copyright laws has largely been defeated. We now have descendents of Mark
> Twain recopyrighting his works, people with copyrights to the "Happy
> Birthday" song and charging royalties, classic movies like "Casablanca"
> colorized to make it a 'new work' and re-copyrighted, companies like
> Microsoft keeping their old copyrights in force so they can *prevent* their
> distribution to compete with current products, etc. With enough money and
> lawyers, copyright are effectively immortal.  --

Fair enough but that doesn't mean the law itself is wrong just those who abuse
it for their own intent (holder or pirate). Copyright Law by and large still
retains its original intent to protect the IP of the originator.