Klarinet Archive - Posting 000570.txt from 1997/03

From: BKruse@-----.COM
Subj: More copyright law
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:15:56 -0500

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From: charette@-----.com AT MINDSCAPE
Date: 03/17/97 12:39 PM
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Subject: More copyright law

Do you think Sandra would feel the same way if she made her living from
writing?

Barry

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Subject: More copyright law
Author: charette@-----.com at MINDSCAPE
Date: 3/17/97 12:39 PM

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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