Pleading the 5th
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Sat Apr 7 07:10:26 PDT 2001
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Reese wrote:
> Napster has a problem because what they are holding was initially purchased
> by someone, who then violated the copyright notice by .mp3 encoding it and
> uploading/making it available. They are a more lucrative target than the
> millions of somebodies, so they were targeted by the RIAA.
>
> OTOH, I didn't pay you for your email I have on my hard drive, and I see
> no copyright notice on it. I think I'll send it to a couple different
> places.
A copyright notice isn't required to copyright a work. It's automatic.
Moot point.
Napster has a problem because they're distributing work that belongs to
somebody else.
Consider this, do you own the music on a CD that you purchase? No.
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