Illegal Use of Images and Text

Carl Crowell (cro...@teleport.com) wrote:
: I have been made aware of another case of illegal re-publishing of items off 
: of my web page.
: 
: You may argue about it all you want, but:
: 
: It is illegal to republish images and or text from email, postings, or WWW 
: sites without the express permission from the artist or writer.
: 
: I will pursue ALL known cases.

I'm not very certain whether you are serious or not in what you have 
said. I don't have web pages or WWW, Mosaic, Netscape and all the 
other fancy Net toys that are all the rage these days.  

My limit is ascii monochrome so here is an ascii picture, all my own 
work, of Yvonne de Mille's award winning kite " Sea Spirit ". It is 
free to do what you like with. I did a simple black and white dot 
matrix printout for Des Pitfi

>My limit is ascii monochrome so here is an ascii picture, all my own 
>work, of Yvonne de Mille's award winning kite " Sea Spirit ". It is 
>free to do what you like with. I did a simple black and white dot 
>matrix printout for Des Pitfi

Sounds like you are doing an artistic representation, and doing that is
NOT illegal...hell, if you wanna draw a coca-cola symbol and post it,
feel free...Andy Warhol didn't get in shit when he did Campbell's Soup
cans for the simple reason that artistic expression overrules
copyright in most cases...You will only get in trouble if you copy
someone else's _copywritten_ artwork...or if you copt tracts from
published or copywritten literary works...check the sigs, if they don't
have (c) or some other similar symbol, then feel free.

And whoever complains can pay the lawyers :)

And by the way, even a (c) doesn't protect you much.

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