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Fight them in court. Copyrights have to be defended by the owner because it is only a right to make a copy. The government agencies for collecting copyrights are registrars, not grantors or administrators of the right. The right is granted on affixing the idea in a form. Registration is simply a way to invoke a known agency as a witness to a date of registration. If you publish ideas on the web or on a list, you have affixed it in a form. You have also probably published it by that, yet defending the right may be costly. My sincere advice, to quote Dr Newcomb, "do not put ANYTHING on the web that you do not want to be on the front page of the New York Times the following Sunday". It is up to you to defend a copyright. Take some time to also understand the concept of fair use. These issues are very much complicated by the laissez faire reuse of information published on the web. The recent settlement of the e-bay suit is very disturbing in that reuse is severely constrained and the power of the web to aggregate information into views is also. On the other hand, the line between taking all of the prices on several auction sites and republishing them as an aggregate answer to a query, and taking a dozen songs off napster and selling them as bootleg CD is pretty thin except in an abstraction of natural associativity. The web can be the neighbor's nasty dog that proves the power of good fences. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Michael Lauzon [mailto:xpl@f...] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 8:40 AM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: What Can One Do If...? What can someone do, if someone steals your idea, writes the acronym the same way you do, and steals early code ideas, and then says he/she copyrighted it. I am asking the XML-DEV mailing list, because my project is related to XML. Simon St. Laurant will know what group I am talking about if he reads this, as he is on the list.
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