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06-12-2003, 03:08 PM

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That's the entire point of copyright law. Controlling when works enter the public domain. You fail to make the distinction between public domain works and copy protected works in your post. It doesn't become part of the public inheritence until it's public domain.

So is a movie just as different from a book, yet you don't see Hollywood making unauthorized movies from copy protected books.

Completely illogical. Tell me why Diku mud code and zones (or yours or mine) should enjoy greater copyright protection than Tolkien's LOTR or StarWars? What's to stop me from saying Diku or your mud and zones are now part of the common cultural inheritence and appropriating them? What makes you think it is right to do that to another author yet you think it's wrong for someone to do to you?

06-12-2003, 03:08 PM	#218
Posts: n/a	Probably That's the entire point of copyright law. Controlling when works enter the public domain. You fail to make the distinction between public domain works and copy protected works in your post. It doesn't become part of the public inheritence until it's public domain. So is a movie just as different from a book, yet you don't see Hollywood making unauthorized movies from copy protected books. Completely illogical. Tell me why Diku mud code and zones (or yours or mine) should enjoy greater copyright protection than Tolkien's LOTR or StarWars? What's to stop me from saying Diku or your mud and zones are now part of the common cultural inheritence and appropriating them? What makes you think it is right to do that to another author yet you think it's wrong for someone to do to you?