Important! BOC Lyric Copyrights and the WWW, FTP

John A Swartz jswartz at MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG
Wed Feb 7 15:41:23 EST 1996


One more thing - let me take all of this copyright stuff to some
further extremes . . .

In many of my e-mails to people, I have a signature file with the lyrics
to the first verse of "Cities on Flame".  Many people have similar
such signature files.  Are all of us violating copyrights by doing
this?  And where does one draw the line?  The whole song is out but you
can reproduce one verse?  You can't reproduce a verse but one sentence
is o.k.?  You can't reproduce a sentence but 2 words are o.k.? (Bolle
often signs his letters, "Fantasy Domains" - is he violating a copyright?)

I'm not trying to be flip here or anything.  I seriously don't know
the answers to these questions that I ask.

John



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