[linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

Jan Depner eviltwin69 at cableone.net
Thu Feb 23 03:34:46 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 14:39 +0000, Immanuel Litzroth wrote:
> "Arnold Krille" <arnold.krille at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Chiming in, altough i didn't want to...
> >
> > 2006/2/22, Immanuel Litzroth <immanuell at enfocus.be>:
> >> "Jan Depner" <eviltwin69 at cableone.net> writes:
> >> >     I just can't resist this.  Please send me a copy of your latest
> >> > song, novel, whatever.  I'll post it on the internet with my name as
> >> > author then we'll come back to this discussion of why Lee and I think
> >> > that copyright infringement is stealing.  Is this really that difficult
> >> > to understand???
> >> That is plagiarism (maybe) mixed with copyright violation. And I'll send you
> >> my latest novel "Why I am a blathering Idiot" this week. Feel free.
> >> Immanuel
> >
> > If he publishes your novel under his name its _not_ plagiarism, its a
> > copyright-violation and theft.
> > Plagiarism would for example be if he writes his own novel which is
> > the same as yours but with other names for people, places, etc.
> >
> 
> You seem to be alone in this opinion. Good luck. 


    Let me cut out the useless information and point out to you that
without copyright there is no plagiarism.  If you place your work in the
public domain I am free to use any or all of it in any work I do without
attribution.  Immoral?  Yes.  Unethical?  Yes.  Downright mean and
nasty?  Yes.  Illegal?  No.

-- 
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
The Fuzzy Dice
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html


"As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be 
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and 
this we should do freely and generously."

Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of 
Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744




More information about the Linux-audio-dev mailing list