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IMOHO, I have decided that the word Copy-right is just another Oxymoron, just as Military Justice and CIA Intelligence. As a librarian, we have been quite interested in copyright law. Let me tell you from personal experience what I have found out. Last November, at our Librarian Staff Development day, we were fortunate enough to have a copyright judge, who was very interesting. However, he made the statement that people sue each other all the time, winning a settlement is much harder. First you must consider Intent. Next you must consider if the person violating the copyright law did indeed profit from it. Third, fair use has yet to be completely defined. You can go to any large library in the U.S. and pull almost all of the news items and complete texts of certain magazines off the Internet and mail them to your own email account, without having to pay for the information. Most major Newspapers have a Web Page where you can go in and read the current newspaper, free of charge. I pay to have my newspaper delivered to my home, not for the information in it. As long as someone is not re-selling this information, I don't think anyone is going to get into too much trouble for trying to be a nice guy, and giving all of us who are praying for the Sinemet Patch, a little to be thankful for on that day. This is just my own opinion, but if this is not true, and we have to watch everything we say and do, then I for one , hope PD hurries and kills me. I really don't want to live in such a world!!! When I first read George Orwell's book " 1984" I laughed at his imagination, now its not funny anymore. I know I'm telling my age, but life used to be much simpler, a postage stamp was 3 cents and the mailmen walked and delivered mail to your door, twice daily. You could offer someone a band-aid at work without setting your company up for a lawsuit, and sharing was taught to all children as the "Golden Rule" by Parents and Schools alike. I have to stop this, I'm making myself sad !!! As Ever, Marjorie Moorefield just another librarian with PD 64/9 At 07:08 AM 5/17/97 -0400, David Havard wrote: >Douglas Holmes wrote: >> >> To all subscribers and readers of the Parkinson's List, >> >> In a message dated 15.5.97 00:37:05, rreiner wrote, forwarding a copy of a >> news item or press release, copyrighted by Business Wire, regarding >> transdermal patch progress in the treatment of PD. >> >> Such copying and (re)distribution of articles is in violation of >> international and U.S. copyright laws, unless the person doing the posting >> has the express, written authorization from the copyright holder to >> distribute the article in question. >> >> As much as we all wish to share new info about PD and all things associated >> with it, we should be careful in doing so that we don't violate the rights of >> others. >> >> > No offence Douglas, I know your probably correct but ..... > >Gosh I feel irritable today. I hope we need not take this too seriously. >Perhaps when someone wants to send an article (not for profit, libel, >criminal intent etc) they should do so anonymously (turn your >identification off). > >I'll stand (perhaps) and quiver (certainly) and tell the judge (if my >voice will let me) that I wanted other PD sufferers to know about this >patch etc. Power to information transfer! > > >Regards > >Anonymous > >