[d@DCC] Unintended consequences of treating the anonymous part of the Internet as other than BY-NC-ND

[Charles MacDonald]

James McKinney wrote:

> Everyone intuitively knows that you can't go around copying other 
> people's work and attributing it to yourself, or giving the impression 
> that you are its creator. This was true even before copyright existed. 
> I've never seen anyone disagree. If anyone here disagrees, please speak 
> up! What constitutes "giving the impression" is up to the courts. The 
> courts will probably ask, "Would a reasonable person believe that this 
> site was the creator of this work?" That's a fair test.
> 
I recall a student at Texas A&M took a large chunk of my Auto page and 
posted it on his web site, I wrote him, ad because I saw his major on 
the rest of his site, I cc-ed the dean.

He wrote me on the sunday that he did'ent mean anything and gee was I 
not being picky, on Monday his entire site had disapered from the 
university server.  I often wondered if they let him stay enrolled.

-- 
Charles MacDonald          Stittsville Ontario
cmacd at TelecomOttawa.net    Just Beyond the Fringe
http://www.TelecomOttawa.net/~cmacd/
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