Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04492
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Les Davis upnrunin@home.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:52:23 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Tilden on TV...
Jeez...... Here we go again!
Vanessa Lutz 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.
>
> "Free web-based email available now at http://www.theglobe.com"
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