Latest on UK WWW links copyright infringement case

[Tony Barry]

At 15:53 96/11/25, Ken CAMERON wrote:
>If you publish a newspaper or book you have no legal right to prevent me
>     from mentioning it or quoting from it (within the constraints of
>     copyright law) and no moral right to expect me to ask your permission
>     before doing so (within the sub-legal constraints of the ethics of
>     plagiarism).   You do have some rights if I steal your material or
>     pretend to have written it myself.  Those distinctions have been worked
>     out over centuries and they need to be implemented on the net, not
>     abandoned.

Here, here!

Tony

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