Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:26:58 -0400 From: Brett <thisdayislong@gmail.com> To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Cc: zionicman@gmail.com, Ingrid Kast Fuller <ingrid@cityscope.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post Message-ID: <f5b151550606202026g1b0c5dceya12f9c04e8417b30@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060621002928.55056.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <f5b151550606191410i2f93e2e8hd0e82fc45b67fe41@mail.gmail.com> <20060621002928.55056.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 6/20/06, Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > User manuals and how-tos don't generally get > copyright notices, because there is nothing > creative about it. Someone could write exactly > the same thing (just about), and you'd have > little claim to it because its just a procedural > description. What, is the formatting of your > index unique or something? Not at all. The entire procedure is unique. That's why it's helpful to others, hopefully. Check out the FreeBSD handbook. It's full of copyright notices. I don't think someone's going to come out with a FreeBSD handbook without images and claim that they wrote it, and then get away with it. And even then, the copyright notice is just a formality. > > But that aside, I was more amused by the subject > "serious breach of copyright", as if someone had > taken your claim for writing War and Peace or > something. They didn't even explicitly put a > byline on it. Its just a how-to on a web page. > > And where are the credits for all of the how-tos > you read to gain this knowledge? Why doesn't > their work count? You should have a full > bibliography. After all, credit is important! > > Like I said, who cares. > > DT > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
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