You'd never know, maybe Encyclopedia Brittannica hold a copyright on 'A method of assembling articles containing information about concepts, entites and persons in an indexed linked form, using a computer'.
Surely you mean a patent...
But if you read your statement carefully, you will see that you are describing the world wide web and search engines.
And i am sure that Tim Berners-Lee would have no trouble in provinding prior art to the patent office (or the courts).
As stated in Against intellectual property byBrian Martin
(http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against _IP.html)
Plagiarism
Many
intellectual workers fear being plagiarised and many of them think that
intellectual property provides protection against this. After all, without
copyright, why couldn't someone put their name on your essay and publish
it? Actually, copyright provides very little protection against plagiarism.
[22]
So-called "moral rights" of authors to be credited are backed by
law in many countries but are an extremely cumbersome way of dealing with
plagiarism.
(...)
In
practice, plagiarism goes on all the time, in various ways and degrees,
[23]
and copyright law is hardly ever used against it. The most effective challenge
to plagiarism is not legal action but publicity. At least among authors,
plagiarism is widely condemned. For this reason, and because they seek to give
credit where it's due, most writers do take care to avoid plagiarising.
So as you can see copyright is not meant to fight plagiarism...
"The Network Driver Porting Kit is not currently available to download. Please check back periodically for availability."
From what I'm reading I don't see any violation of GPL, nor do I see any loophole. It seems to me that the person distributing only binary Solaris drivers is responsible for the violation of GPL not Sun.
No. Remember that the messages are copyrigthed by the users, so Deja cant just alter them (by embeding links) without consent. And if they really want to do it at least they should post a warning saying that the links were inserted by deja. Fax Christ
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You'd never know, maybe Encyclopedia Brittannica hold a copyright on 'A method of assembling articles containing information about concepts, entites and persons in an indexed linked form, using a computer'.
Surely you mean a patent...
But if you read your statement carefully, you will see that you are describing the world wide web and search engines.
And i am sure that Tim Berners-Lee would have no trouble in provinding prior art to the patent office (or the courts).
You, me, everyone has a right to profit from their labors.
No.
Everyone has the right to try to make a profit.
This is a different concept. If you are not having profits from your work, your rights are not being violated.
Plagiarism Many intellectual workers fear being plagiarised and many of them think that intellectual property provides protection against this. After all, without copyright, why couldn't someone put their name on your essay and publish it? Actually, copyright provides very little protection against plagiarism. [22] So-called "moral rights" of authors to be credited are backed by law in many countries but are an extremely cumbersome way of dealing with plagiarism. (...)
In practice, plagiarism goes on all the time, in various ways and degrees, [23] and copyright law is hardly ever used against it. The most effective challenge to plagiarism is not legal action but publicity. At least among authors, plagiarism is widely condemned. For this reason, and because they seek to give credit where it's due, most writers do take care to avoid plagiarising.
So as you can see copyright is not meant to fight plagiarism...
The Problem is that patents cant be obvious. They have to be a non obvious innovation.
They stopped distribution of the kit.
"The Network Driver Porting Kit is not currently available to download. Please check back periodically for availability."
From what I'm reading I don't see any violation of GPL, nor do I see any loophole. It seems to me that the person distributing only binary Solaris drivers is responsible for the violation of GPL not Sun.
No. Remember that the messages are copyrigthed by the users, so Deja cant just alter them (by embeding links) without consent. And if they really want to do it at least they should post a warning saying that the links were inserted by deja. Fax Christ