Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Qu0ll Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: HTTP/2 stole my Applet Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:35:21 +1000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <00B0ABEE.100C0E1C@SendSpamHere.ORG> <812737fc-ccb4-4713-a21f-1870be13f0e0@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: S6BdRCwOOQNof2S1PYfqlg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34684 On 21/06/2016 22:01, Eric Douglas wrote: > NPR had some news recently on copyright. > http://www.npr.org/2016/06/18/482594702/as-led-zeppelin-faces-copyright-charges-the-line-between-plagiarism-and-homage > > There should be a relatively short statute of limitations on this stuff, > flat out ridiculous they can claim in 2016 that someone in 1971 copied their song released in 1968. > > They say it's only a violation of copyright if it's theft, and in music at least they have to decide what is theft, > inspiration, homage, or parody. There is a special exception for parody. > > http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/06/16/482214814/what-a-goodnight-moon-spinoff-tells-us-about-copyright-law I think what you are trying to say is that in America, "Everybody sues somebody sometime"... (I'm safe - that was a "parody") -- And loving it, -Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct) _________________________________________________ Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com [Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]