RE: COMMON in San Antonio (fwd)

[Bob Cozzi <BobCozzi@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

On Saturday, September 13, 1997 8:30 PM, Mark Lazarus 
[SMTP:mlazarus@ttec.com] wrote:
>
> >But to put it on the Internet for people to download, I guess I'd have 
to
> >think about the benefit to the majority of the COMMON members before I
> >could agree with that.
>
>  Why is being on the web w/ a copyright notice in the text any different
> than a CD copy?


I guess from copyrighting a number of things (beyond just putting 
"Copyright Cozzi" on something, but actually registering the copyright, you 
have to become aware that in order to enforce you copyright, you sometimes 
have to prove access. If I put "copyright Cozzi" on my handout, give it to 
COMMON to reproduce, and in turn, give a copy of it to an attendee, there 
is a paper path that can be followed. If I simply stick it on the Internet, 
the paper path is lost.

While there are several presentations for which I don't mind who downloads 
them, I do get paid to speak at user groups, and commercially, outside of 
COMMON. There have been times when people have taken sessions, mine and 
others, from a COMON conference and gone and presented them as their own 
materials. While I'm sure no one on this list has ever or would ever do 
something like that, there are some that would. If there were not, we would 
NOT need to have a copyright law.



Bob Cozzi
Bob@RPGIV.COM
www.rpgiv.com
AS/400 Books:  http://www.rpgiv.com/as400Books.html



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