From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c42dbf68f5320193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 14:56:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT:Copyright, was Re: Generation of permutations Date: 1 May 2002 14:56:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205011356.5859c81e@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0205010446.192338ce@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1020290174 22948 127.0.0.1 (1 May 2002 21:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 May 2002 21:56:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23372 Date: 2002-05-01T21:56:14+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news: > it, then sue them, I suspect a judge might be convinced > to look askance at my actions. The law is based on statute and on precedence of case law, not on Tom Moran's suspicions. After all, consider the case of the lawyer who bought a dozen rare cigars and insured them against all loss. He then smoked them, and claimed insurance on the grounds that they had been consumed in separate small fires. The insurance company refused to pay up. The lawyer sued. Now I would not be surprised if the principle of TMS (Tom Moran Suspicions [as to what the law should be]) would expect the judge to throw the case out. But in fact the judge ruled that the contract did not exempty this case of fire, and the insurance company had to pay $15,000. (the end of this story is that the lawyer was then charged with 12 counts of arson -- you can't go around deliberately burning up your property to collect the insurance. He was found guilty, sentenced to 24 months probation, and ordered to pay a fine of $24,000 :-) This story is reported as true in a competition to find the most notorious case of strange law. But anyway, anyone counting on being protected for copyright violation by appealing to TMS is taking a risk!