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Not true. Take the old Q38 or News/400 magazine. They both charged for the magazine and hence the material was made available only to a small audience (i.e., their subscribers). Even if every subscriber who go the magazine used say the old "WRKDBF" command that I published in the 1985 timeframe, non-subscribers would not have a right to use the material, unless I explicitly stated so. Generally speaking, only work created BY the Federal Government is considered Public Domain; also work whose copyright has expired is also now in the public domain. Bob Cozzi Cozzi Consulting www.rpgiv.com -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 10:15 AM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: Re: Copyrights (was Re: strsep sourc) I would think that once a magazine publishes that the source is available for download it's open to the public. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Qsrvbas <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 06/13/2003 01:29 AM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Fax to: Subject: Copyrights (was Re: strsep sourc) rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 10. Re: strsep sourc (Buck) > >Scott's comments about derivative works comes from the idea that you can't >copy pages from my copyrighted math textbook, publish it with a new cover >and call it your own. > What bothers me about all of this is the "standard practice" of using copyrighted programs that (nearly?) all of us have done... E.g., we see a copyrighted article in a trade magazine that provides an example template for "Work with..." functions and think nothing of using it more or less directly as the basis for every "Work with..." function we ever write. Downloadable code is usually available too, now that telecomm is everywhere. Technically, that's a possible copyright violation and I challenge anybody to prove that a lawyer _couldn't_ convince a court of it. But it's common practice. It's been so common for so long that the entire concept of copying _published_ code for inclusion in applications calls into question the validity of enforcing copyrights once the code is widely published. How is it possible to know when a copyright is "serious"? (I don't know a better word for this.) Tom Liotta _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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