Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04487
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Matt Procopation proc@home.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:20:23 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Tilden on TV...
At 03:44 PM 6/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 03:23 PM 6/14/99 , Feser, Jason wrote:
>
>>Watch as I single handedly flaunt the law!
>
>It isn't the law you are trampling on. It is someone's (or some companies)
>intellectual property rights.
>
>Why not just put your name on "Living Machines" or Ian's drawings and start
>distributing them as if they were your own? It really isn't any different,
>and no amount of mealy mouthed self justification on your part will make it
>any different. Tramplng on someone's rights can't be done just a little bit
>any more than someone can be just a little bit pregnant.
>
>Chances are that TLC won't make a big deal about it, but is that really the
>point? I can only hope that someday you'll have some intellectual property
>that has value just to see if you find it cute or permissable for someone to
>rip off.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it. This is a television program we're talking
about.
As far as I'm concerned, what he's doing is analagous to lending someone
a tape of the program. Should we sue the VCR manufacturers for putting a
record button on their machines? After all, what could someone possibly use it
for except for recording someone elses intellectual property.
He's not passing someone elses work off as his own, or selling it,
and he's not distributing something that someone would normally have to pay
for (as is the case with mp3s). I don't see what the great moral dilemma is.
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