Re: My Website Has Been Taken Down

[nem <nem@nospam>]

"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote in news:

> Public Domain is a sad case:
> 
> http://www.xanga.com/publicdomain/687985634/public-domain-day-2009/
> 
> DRM is a sad case:
> 
> http://www.digital-copyright.ca/

Anything that was pushed by corporate lobbyists (Disney's extension 
schemes, the DMCA) is a sad case.
 
> But in the US on the bright side "Independent Creation is Permitted. A
> second work, identical to an earlier copyrighted work, does not
> infringe, if it is, in fact, independently created."

Well, how do you suppose Compaq could clone the IBM PC BIOS? Their BIOS 
was functionally identical, but because it consisted entirely of 
original code, it did not violate IBM's copyright.