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You are not a lawyer and that's obvious, too bad you try to act like one with citations and outlandish statements. If I post an article on mysite.org on "free

You are not a lawyer and that's obvious, too bad you try to act like one with citations and outlandish statements. If I post an article on mysite.org on "free trade" and you think you can archive it and copy and re-distribute it for eternity, you better think it again. The implied license is to read the article from my site, for as long as it is posted there--in MY site. Now, if I become a US President and someone has a copy from 45 years ago, that's different.

pdkl95 9y ago
> you think you can archive it and copy and re-distribute it for eternity Did you read my post? I specifically said you couldn't. >> You do not have the right to make new copies. Copy rights are separate from your property rights related to your copy of a work. > You are not a lawyer Yes, although I have been studying copyright issues since the early 1990s. I'm not saying anything remotely controversial in current interpretations of copyright law. Incidentally, a new interpretation that is slowly being accepted by courts is misuse of copyright[1]. Based on the older patent misuse, the idea is having a copyright only grants rights related to creating new copies of a work. Claiming that copyright somehow also grants you other totally unrelated right can result in the court preventing the copyright holder from enforcing their copyright[2]. Relying on misinformation about copyright can have serious consequences. > too bad you try to act like one You're seeing what you want to see. Providing references to what you're talking about is encouraged on HN. [1] Lasercomb America, Inc. v. Reynolds [2] https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/litigationnews/practice_areas/072810-intellectual-property-copyright-misuse-overview.html https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/litigationnews/pract...

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You are not a lawyer and that's obvious, too bad you try to act like one with citations and outlandish statements. If I post an article on mysite.org on "free

by onetimemanytime 9y ago

pdkl95 9y ago
> you think you can archive it and copy and re-distribute it for eternity Did you read my post? I specifically said you couldn't. >> You do not have the right to make new copies. Copy rights are separate from your property rights related to your copy of a work. > You are not a lawyer Yes, although I have been studying copyright issues since the early 1990s. I'm not saying anything remotely controversial in current interpretations of copyright law. Incidentally, a new interpretation that is slowly being accepted by courts is misuse of copyright[1]. Based on the older patent misuse, the idea is having a copyright only grants rights related to creating new copies of a work. Claiming that copyright somehow also grants you other totally unrelated right can result in the court preventing the copyright holder from enforcing their copyright[2]. Relying on misinformation about copyright can have serious consequences. > too bad you try to act like one You're seeing what you want to see. Providing references to what you're talking about is encouraged on HN. [1] Lasercomb America, Inc. v. Reynolds [2] https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/litigationnews/practice_areas/072810-intellectual-property-copyright-misuse-overview.html https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/litigationnews/pract...