Re: more on supremes ruling

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>]

"Kathy E. Gill" wrote:
> 
> More links:
> 
> http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB993473705172238884.htm
> (registration required)
> 
> 
> Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the
> electronic databases reproduce and distribute articles "standing
> alone," and are not part of a collective work that would be shielded
> under federal copyright law. "Both the print publishers and the
> electronic publishers, we rule, have infringed the copyrights of
> free-lance authors," Justice Ginsburg wrote.
> 
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42816-2001Jun25.html
> (link breaks)
> 

Although this initially seems like a victory for writers, it will
eventually drastically alter the way all of us  get free information
from the internet.



-- 
Peter
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usually means adapting new machines to
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