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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: the ultimate IF archive
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"kodrik" <kodrik@zc8.net> wrote in message
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> I do not say that the work looses its copyright, just that you can
> redistribute it.

That's bullshit.

> If you buy a copyright book you can turn arouns and resell it for a
> profit, the author cannot do anything about it.

Spot the difference:

* I buy a book and sell it at a profit.
* I download a file, burn it to thousands of CDs, sell those at a profit.

You *cannot* copy a copyrighted worked unless that permission has been
*explicitly* granted to you by the copyright holder.  Selling your copy,
fine, making copies of it for others, no.

> I hope this way of putting it will make my point clearer.

Your point is invalid, since it is based on the premise that you are allowed
to copy a copyrighted work by default.

Look, if you want to distribute copies of a work by an author who hasn't
granted you that right already, you ask.  And if the author says you can't
distribute it, you fucking well don't distribute it.  It's that simple.  Ask
any lawyer whose degree didn't come from the back of a cereal box.

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Ben A L Jemmett.
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