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- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution
- Message-ID: <EMCGUIRE.92Nov18120858@fuller.intellection.com>
- From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:08:58 GMT
- Sender: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- References: <1992Nov16.154122.25324@news.columbia.edu>
- <1992Nov16.214125.4303@clarinet.com><1992Nov16.232911.6987@news.columbia.edu><1992Nov17.101330.13534@clarinet.com>
- Organization: Intellection, Inc.
- In-Reply-To: brad@clarinet.com's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:13:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.101330.13534@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
-
- But the law says that your opinion about whether it is harmful is not
- relevant. I know that's hard for some people to accept. The law says
- that the copyright holder gets to decide who gets to copy it. "I honestly
- did not feel they were harmed" is not a defence. One can say it until one
- is blue in the face, but it is not a defence.
-
- However, if the court determines that they were not harmed, you are
- only going to get a cease and desist order slapped on you, not a
- costly judgement.
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