Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 15:43:43 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000520154342.C93357@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000520130326.008a9c50@mail85.pair.com>; from adam@whizkidtech.net on Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:03:26PM -0500 References: <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> <4.3.1.2.20000519144129.04244e60@localhost> <4.3.1.2.20000520081306.046e03d0@localhost> <3.0.6.32.20000520130326.008a9c50@mail85.pair.com>
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On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:03:26PM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 08:17 20-05-2000 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > >At 11:43 PM 5/19/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > > > >> > Ah, but performers routinely prohibit recording or videotaping of > >> > plays and concerts, claiming a copyright on those "events." > >> > >>Are they claiming copyright to the event, or that when you use your > >>ticket you incurred a contractual obligation not to record the event? > > > >Both, actually. You will find notices on the tickets AND copyright > >notices in TV and radio broadcasts. > > TV broadcasts are covered by copyright law. They are not "events". > > Recordings and videotapes, too, are copyrightable (as are photographs). > > As for plays, there is also the issue of the play itself (the original > written text) being covered by copyright. > > I acted in many plays at a local college theatre. The director makes a > video of each play (one performance only), which he lets us view but not > not copy. We cannot copy it because of the playwright's copyright. In fact, > our director says regular theatres cannot even tape their own productions: > He can only get away with it because it is a college theatre, and there is > something in the copyright law (I don't know the details) that allows him > to tape it for educational purposes - I'm just quoting what he says, no > need to argue with me about its validity (I wouldn't know <g>). See United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Sec 110. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/110.html -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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