At 11:33 AM 4/24/97 +0100, Phil Bradley wrote:
"..... You cannot copyright that than you can claim copyright over
the way in which you lay out a flyer, letter or book....."
That statement is wrong in law. In addition to the copyright in the *words*
of a book -- which the author retains if (s)he has any sense, or a good
literary agent -- there is a copyright in the typographical arrangement and
layout, which the publisher owns.
"....As copies must be made in order to view the page, these notices
effectively prohibit any viewing..."
Quite. In fact, if a publisher wants to enforce the law against copying
their text, they have an obvious remedy -- don't put it on the Web for free!
Surely if a publisher wants to make money from selling a piece of
information, they have to install some kind of password- or
encryption-protected access requiring payment. (Yes, I know these aren't
foolproof yet, but we're talking principles here.) It is surely quite
reasonable (even if illegal) for a user to assume that if someone has put
information on the WWW without charging for it, then users are allowed to
look at it! Otherwise why on earth has it been put there?
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Fytton Rowland, Lecturer, and Programme Tutor for
Information and Publishing Studies,
Department of Information and Library Studies,
Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK.
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