Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 01:43:26 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <392625FE.43D7994B@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> <4.3.1.2.20000519144129.04244e60@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > 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." Are they claiming copyright to the event, or that when you use your ticket you incurred a contractual obligation not to record the event? > 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. The broadcast, of course, is copyrightable, and anything based on it would be a derivative work. If you attend the game in person, see previous comment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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