From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 19 13:46:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E90937B9C8 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14751; Fri, 19 May 2000 14:46:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000519144129.04244e60@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:46:32 -0600 To: "Thomas M. Sommers" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <392475F3.513EE781@mail.ptd.net> References: <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513192827.00895a10@mail85.pair.com> <20000514040731.B17455@happy.checkpoint.com> <391E27DD.320D4BBF@mail.ptd.net> <20000514024308.A57423@sasami.jurai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:00 PM 5/18/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: >A chess game is an event, not a literary or artistic work of any sort. >You could not more copyright a chess game than you could copyright a >walk in the park. Ah, but performers routinely prohibit recording or videotaping of plays and concerts, claiming a copyright on those "events." Likewise, the NFL and NBA claim copyrights baseball and football games, and have claimed that people who compile statistics and scores by watching licensed broadcasts are creating derivative works. What's more, the so-called "Collections of Information Anti-Piracy Act" (in the US Congress but not passed) would make the scores themselves the intellectual property of the league. You couldn't reproduce sports stats at all without a license. There's got to be a balance here, but with big money and big corporations in control of Congress things are out of kilter. The DMCA is a great example of taking things too far. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message