On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:20:35 -0400, zoltan47 <zoltan47@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:36:31 -0500, "Puff-Adder" <puff-adder> wrote:
>
>>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>>news:lhvai002dck@drn.newsguy.com:
>>
>>> In article <YIidnWuYrKEKTd_OnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@giganews.com>, zod
>>> says...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Whatever happened to puff-adder? Did he TOS'd?
>>>
>>>
>>> Apparently he was fingered (heh) but by the websites he was stealing
>>> from.
>>>
>>>
>>Actually, I've never taken anything directly from an original website.
>>Everything I've ever posted here has been reposted from someone else's
>>Blog or elsewhere on the Newsgroups.
>>
>>In other words, things that were already in the public domain.
>>
>>Puff-Adder
>
>Just as an FYI, reposting something someone else posted with the
>permission of the copyright holder does not make it public domain.
>
>Public domain means the owner has forfeited its intellectual property
>rights or the rights have expired. If the owner is in fact going after
>people who post their pictures on the net, that's an indication they
>have not forfeited their rights.
>
>BTW, this was purely meant as a clarification on the concept of what
>defines public domain. It was not a hit against Puff-Adder or anyone
>else who has posted on the newsgroups. It would be hypocritical of me
>to assess any "guilt" on such posters if I'm downloading the material
>they post.
BTW, that was supposed to be "... reposting something someone else
posted WITHOUT the permission of the copyright holder ..." Makes a big
difference.
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