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- From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.094750.7211@nntp.nta.no>
- Sender: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
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- Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
- References: <1992Nov16.154122.25324@news.columbia.edu> <EMCGUIRE.92Nov18120858@fuller.intellection.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 09:47:50 GMT
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- In article <EMCGUIRE.92Nov18120858@fuller.intellection.com>, emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
- |> 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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- But, as Bruce Wright wrote earlier, you may have to pay the plaintiff's attorney
- fees and court costs.
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