Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online

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Greg Buchner wrote in message ...

>Maybe he's coming out with a new modern game based on the same story.
>Maybe some fan of the game is also coming out with the same type of
>game and beats the original author to the punch.  Original author sues
>saying he owns the copyright.  The fan responds that the game has been
>out available on the net for years so it must have been free.  Both
>authors spend way too much money on lawyers, both authors decide that
>the game isn't worth it, both authors abandon any continuation of the
>program, everybody looses...except the lawyers.
>
>Greg B.


Haha! This is even more ridiculous than some of the crap I hear. While QC
and the rest of the rabid fanatics spend time actually exaggerating what are
true and moral rights, you're making up a new one here. If the "fan" is
creating a new and original work, then he wasn't in the wrong one bit. If
someone loses here, it is the "original author", and what he loses is his
common sense. People are allowed to write their own stuff. No one has been
born an heir to the exclusive monopoly of authoring what they choose.

John