Re: Copyright laws

From: Eduardo Gutierrez de Oliveira (eduo@sparc.ciateq.conacyt.mx)
Date: 10/18/96


On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Steve Reeves wrote:

> >> I steal a copy, go into a text editor, change it a little bit, and change
> >> the copyright to ME. I now use it in my mud.
> >BUZZ!  Notta, theres a little thing called plagiarism, and go and ask any 
> >english teacher, and plagiarism is not fixed by changing a small portion 
> >of the work, if you use that work, as a base, or unmodified, it is still 
> >copyright that person.
> Well, technically, you can get away with using someone else's copyright work
> as a base, if you change at least 70% of it.  [Or that's what I was told
> several years back by someone.]  But then, I guess if you changed 70%, it'd
> be essentially your own work..

Just note, this 100% concept implies both 'look' and 'concept', that is,
you could change 100% of the text and still be violating copyrights by
using the same 'concept', it is easier to see the exmaple of a picture or
a photo. You could see a great concepto on a photo, and instead of
photocopying the thing you go and make a photo with exactly the same
parts, it would look very much the same, but to be literal, it would not
be the same at all, it would also be 100% different (because none of the
parts of the original were taken), this is not considered fair use because
you are still stealing the concept.

Luck

Myth

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