Re: Archiving old magazines on website

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

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:56:14 GMT, Charles Richmond wrote:

> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:09:32 +0800, Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > >Except if they don't send you a C&D they will get thrown out of court.
> > >Stop living in the 80s dumbass.
> > 
> > Well, you might want to check into copyright law again. It is now a
> > criminal offense in the United States and the copyright holder does
> > not even need to be involved for action to be taken which can result
> > in a fine and/or jail time last I looked.
> > 
> I know that the recent copyright laws are much more draconian than the
> copyright laws of old. Perhaps it's because people sense that it is getting
> harder to enforce copyright laws.

I don't know if this is stricly true personally I feel it is due to the
Internet's rise and the subsequent proliferation of copyright theft which has
led to much more publicity being given to the issue. Especially when involving
the music /movie industry which has always been pretty pro-active in prosecuting
and protecting its assets. As has been stated most copyright theft still isn't
prosecuted.