OT: Re: your views on copyrights

[Wayne Townsend]

Hi Tracy,


>Boy-oh-boy do you have a flawed view of this subject. Lucky for us we don't

>have to rely on viewpoints and opinions because there is a law.


>Rather than guessing what you think it says, why don't you read it.


Because I am not a lawyer (don't you like me better already  ;) ) and

therefore am not qualified to interpret law.


>The law is called "U.S. Copyright Act of 1976."  Excerpts from this law:....


If you must quote and interpret law in public, instead of state your

opinion, then you should probably have a license.  (No, this is not an

invitation for real lawyers to chime in ;) )


People living in the US often have a narrow view of the world.

But the world simply does not revolve around the US and its laws.

The internet is a worldwide system.


I think you'll find it rather difficult to enforce US law in other countries.


The idea that I can create a bouncing ball, put it on the net, and then

think I own the rights to bouncing balls all over the world may sound

leagally correct to your interpritation of "THE LAW", but it is obviously

uninforcible.  Besides, most laws have built-in loopholes.  Why don't you

quote the _entire_ document, and I'll see if I can find a few.


But, that's not the point. Again, it doesn't matter what my view on

copyrights, or right and wrong are.


My message is it's best to relax about it, because attempting to enforce

copyrights for flash animations is probably beyond the financial capability

of most people here.  It's a battle that will never go away and would be

very expensive to fight, so in effect, US copyright law is useless to the

Flash artist.


If we took a vote, I don't think that results would show that we really

want a situation where everything created in Flash so far is off limits,

and from today forward, everything else created must be *entirely* new,

otherwise you face a lawsuit.  I am not in favor of directly copying other

people's work, I'm just saying that trying to stop it is a waste of your

time, regardless of any "laws" you can wave around, so it's best just to

forget about it and get back to work.


It's all a grey area.  Meaning not profitable to fight and you have little

assurance of winning. It's best to put the energy into new creation rather

into battling over what has already been done.


Pride makes lawyers rich.


Hey MM, I guess you need to remove all those "Why not play a game of Pong

while you wait" loading screens from ShockRave.  ;)


/wayne


Wayne Townsend

WebStaffing.Net

Dallas, Texas

US-  972.713.8705

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