Re: www.adahome.com?...

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <J8u26.47403$A06.1375585@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> >But he copyrighted stuff that (arguably) he had no right to copyright.
>   Then he didn't copyright it, he mislabeled it.  If he did that
> with intent to defraud the actual copyright owner it's probably a
> crime as well as a tort.  Hmmm, a highly publicized case over web sites

Perhaps, but as I said, its arguable. To make matters more complicated,
he's a resident of Switzerland (I believe). Copyright laws there are
bound to be subtly different than in the US. Plus some of the Usenet
postings were made from third contries...

We tried to resolve these issues with him personally, but this is the
position he wants to take. Sure, some high-priced legal help *might* be
able to free up some of the work. But we are engineers here, not
laywers. Since no one is out any real money, the best and safest thing
to do is to just redo the work. As "Larry the Liquidator" said in Other
People's Money, "Lawyers are like H-bombs; ... using them just fucks
everything up".

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