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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduardo Gutierrez de Oliveira eduo@sparc.ciateq.conacyt.mx Administrador de Internet Internet Administrator Proveedor de Servicio Internet CIATEQ, A.C. Internet Service Provider Centro de Investigacion y Asistencia Tecnica del Estado de Queretaro, A.C. http://sparc.ciateq.conacyt.mx/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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