On Mar 21, 10:15am, you proclaimed:
} >From the cyberdesk of: Alan Michael Parry
} > From: Andrew Bennett <abennett@phoenix.aps.muohio.edu>
} > He said that he mentioned it to his boss earlier (the label owner), who
} > concured. The label owner indicated that if this was done to his label,
} > that he might sue due to the copyright violations.
}
} I thought the US Supreme court determined that lists of factual information
} were specfically not copyrightable.
Yes, though these are actual music samples and cover scans. Although
technically, I don't see that more creative effort was always put into them
than into the names of the records :)
} Now if the WWW thingy contains actual "samples" of Rephlex products, then if
} there were some way to enforce a "play only" mode and disallow downloads,
} then you might just need permission from the label to make a "custom format
} demo version" similar to the CD-machines you can pop headphones on in Tower
} and listen to various CDs before you buy.
Nope. There's really no way to have documents which people can view
but not download, due the very nature of electronic documents. First,
you'd have to get all the browsers in the world to comply by
incorporating some sort of <viewonly> tag, and those that didn't,
well, they'd still be able to. And even then, most people could
cut-n-paste from the browser to another window, thus saving it. There
really is no difference between downloading information and copying it
outright, so when documents are put up on the net, it is strongly implicit
that they are totally reproducible. Except, of course, if further
redistribution is for financial gain.
} How does an arrangement like that (i.e. the WWW site holds an ASCAP license)
} fit onto the WWW site? Do y'all need an ASCAP license, or does the site, or
} does the receiver's site? If you have an ASCAP license, does it matter? Is
} there a difference between a DJ and a WWW-cyber-DJ?
ASCAP is a dinosaur which will die soon. If anyone's interested in this
subject, there is a thread on comp.infosystems.www about this, or read
John Perry Barlow's article in the March WIRED about it (plug plug :)
Brian