Re: Where is the beef???

[modus-dejanews@pr.es.to (Patrick Michael Kane)]

On Sat, 05 Sep 1998 17:29:13 GMT, Jeff Blakeney <CUTjefbla@bconnex.net> wrote:
>On 5 Sep 1998 02:58:27 GMT, pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)
>wrote:
>
>>If I may interject ;-), the real bottom line here is that copyright law is
>>a weapon for the copyright owner to use. Period. So, Nathan, for example 
>
>Copyright law is not a weapon.  It is not used for offense, it is used
>for defense. Defense of the copyrighted material.

The best defense is a good offense!

>>didn't have a leg to stand on with his usual tirades against asimov, because
>>while we may debate it's legality of archiving software unless specifically
>>asked by the copyright owner not to, only the copyright owner has any power
>>under copyright law to issue a "cease and desist" request.
>
>The copyright holders have already place that "cease and desist"
>request on their material when they copyrighted it.  For example, here
>is the copyright info from Accolade's Space Station software for the
>Apple II:
>
>Company:  Accolade
>Title:  Project:  Space Station
>Platform:  Apple II
>
>"The enclosed software program is copyrighted.  It is against the law
>to copy any portion of the software on disk, cassette tape, or another
>medium for any purpose.  It is against the law to give away or resell
>copies of any part of this software.  Any unauthorized distribution of
>this product deprives Accolade, Inc. and their authors of their
>deserved profits and royalties.  Accolade, Inc. will seek full legal
>recourse against violators."

See the weapon part of this statement: "Any unauthorized distribution of
this product deprives ...... Accolade, Inc. will seek full legal recourse
against violaters."

When Accolade, Inc. sends their lawyers after me for posting Project: Space
Station, I'll take it down.  Until that point, it'll stay up.  The risk I
incur is entirely my own, so why complain?
-- 
Patrick Michael Kane
<modus-dejanews@pr.es.to>