Book People Archive

Re: copyright

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Rod Hay wrote:

> One can put a copyright notice on anything. That does not mean that it
> will stand up in court. Or that the courts will even listen to a complaint.
>              
> Rod
>            
I see books all the time are are word for word the same as our Project
Gutenberg Etexts, complete with brand new copyright notices. . .which,
BTW, are no longer required.  My guess is that if you challenged them
in court that they would say the copyright notice was only meant for
the cover art. . .which some more enlightened publishers will do. . .
label the copyright as only for art, intros, etc.

[Moderator: The next three lines are from another post by Michael in the
 same thread, which I'll add here to streamline the thread.  In
 context of that post, I assume "these people" are the ones who put
 up spurious copyright notices. -JMO]

Someday, when I/we have raised a billion dollars,
we should start suing all these people for
"Misuse of Copyright". . . .


Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!


Michael S. Hart
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