Klarinet Archive - Posting 000565.txt from 1997/03

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.COM>
Subj: More copyright law
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:39:37 -0500

The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of
authors, but "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original
expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and
information conveyed by a work....This result is neither unfair nor
unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress
of science and art.

-- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
(Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone
Service Co., 499 US 340, 349 (1991)

Taken from http://www.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/legcom/guidefai.htm
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