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Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim

From dvus <dven1@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim
Date 2016-01-25 06:33 -0500
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On 1/24/2016 2:13 AM, benj wrote:
> On 01/23/2016 08:46 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 24/01/2016 6:21 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 1/22/16 12:53 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>>> If only certain copyright violaters were dead.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Now, now, jimp, you're obsessive nature is outta control, and your
>>>
>>> Why do you ignore copyrights?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Deciding whether something is a breach of copyright is not as simple as
>> observing that something was copied. Publishing an excerpt together with
>> a reference to the original would not be unless the excerpt is so large
>> as to amount to a substantial part of the original.
>>
>> Sylvia.
>
> Generally speaking your view has NOT been taken by the courts who have
> supported authors with the lone exception of satire. Of course Wormley's
> cut and paste may actually fall under that exception!

It seems odd. If an author publishes a small portion of someone else's 
work and uses that in an attempt to debunk it he's often accused of 
"cherry-picking", but if he publishes it all he's accused of copyright 
infringement. Seems like a no-win situation.

-- 
dvus

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The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 11:32 -0600
  Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Lawrence Senreich <lawest@galaxyredeems.org> - 2016-01-22 17:59 +0000
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-22 12:43 -0600
  The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 10:46 -0800
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 12:48 +1100
      Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-23 02:20 +0000
        Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 12:39 +1100
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-24 02:12 +0000
            Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 02:18 -0500
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim R Kym Horsell <kym@kymhorsell.com> - 2016-01-24 03:20 +0000
            Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim GogoJF <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-23 19:50 -0800
              Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim GogoJF <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-23 20:00 -0800
            Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 15:06 +1100
              Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim R Kym Horsell <kym@kymhorsell.com> - 2016-01-24 05:18 +0000
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 23:00 -0800
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 23:00 -0800
            Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 02:19 -0500
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 12:11 -0800
            Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-24 12:29 -0800
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 02:17 -0500
    Re: Is is alive ? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 10:33 -0500
    Re: Is is alive ? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 12:41 +1100
    Is is alive ? jay moseley <jaymoseley@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-23 22:46 -0800
  Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-22 18:53 +0000
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 10:22 -0600
      Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-23 19:21 +0000
        Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 12:46 +1100
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-24 02:17 +0000
            Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 15:04 +1100
              Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-24 06:16 +0000
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 02:13 -0500
            Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2016-01-25 06:33 -0500
              Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 10:53 -0600
  Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 12:11 -0800
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-22 20:26 +0000
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 16:13 -0800
      Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-22 17:15 -0800
      Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-23 02:21 +0000
        Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 15:40 -0800
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-24 01:43 +0000
      Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 15:07 +1100
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 02:30 -0500
  Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-01-23 14:08 -0800
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 02:08 -0500

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