What is IP and whose interests does copyright protect Re: [LINK] web site choices.

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Peter Bowditch wrote:
> Roger said:
> 
> 
>>(In my case, I need the protection that 'no derivatives' affords me,
>>because I say things that annoy people - and, to a considerable
>>extent, I *intend* to annoy them.
> 
> 
> Exactly my reason for using the by-nc-nd licence on the ratbags.com site. 
> I don't mind people quoting me, but I certainly don't want anyone 
> paraphrasing me.
> 
Derivative seems to have quite a broad defintion... - converting PDF to
HTML, presumeably also ASCII text to HTML, Browser Rendered text to a
podcast, quotation and now paraphrasing.

But technically, to view a webpage don't visitors to a website, take a
copy and in effect make a derivative in their browser?

Also, is there a separation of the text on the page from the rendition
of the text...effectively the HTML incorporating the text is a
derivative of the text provided to a web publisher for a particular
purpose. On some of the webpages on the Ramin Communications site, I
make a distinction of copyright between the content and the webpages.

Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
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