quoted 6 lines Besides, copyrights aren't meant for distribution issues as much as>>Besides, copyrights aren't meant for distribution issues as much as
>>they are for plagarism issues.
>>
> i dont agree, they were very much put in place to prevent one
> publishing house from putting out another companies material without
> paying them.
A few of the journals I put online have discussed this recently, and it's
basically true.
American publishing houses were publishing works of british authors (that
were published originally by british publishing houses). They were not
paying for the works; they were simply running off copies and selling them
with no change to indicate that they were "unauthorized" or that the author
wasn't getting anything from their sale.
There are memoirs of some of the better-known british authors complaining
about american publishers, but complained that there was "little they could
do without copyright laws in america."
Ironically, America now has some of the most stringent copyright laws, and
has pushed for the most recent expansions of copyright law. How the tables
have turned, eh? :)
There are no laws against plagiarism, per se. The laws of copyright
include
plagiarism only because of the reproduction of other people's work.
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