[CAUT] Copyright

[Marcel Carey]

Hi Jurgen,

Interesting question, but, there is something you forgot. We were directed to a website where that news was. There is nothing wrong with sending someone to a particular website. Now, if you were to copy the text or the website and make it appear to be you own, then I think you could get in trouble. But now with websites, I think the copyrights could be extremely hard to defend (read to sue).

I guess it probably would be illegal and wrong to copy the whole article and put it in a newspaper that would be sold without paying dues to the original author. But to report the content by saying for example: "Hey guys, guess what? Yamaha just bought Bösendorfer.", I don't see that you would be doing anything wrong or unlawfull.

There must be new rules with internet content. I thought that as soon as something was publicly available on the net, legal rights were different.

But then I could be wrong too.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC
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> From: pianoforte at pianofortesupply.com
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:48:23 -0800
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: [CAUT] Copyright
> 
> Recently, on this list, an article regarding the sale of Bösendorfer 
> has been reprinted in its entirety not once, but several times.  At the 
> bottom of the article is says
>>> Copyright © 2002 Playbill, Inc. All Rights Reserved
> 
> What does this mean?  Does it mean that it is OK to copy the whole 
> article as long as you include the copyright information?  I always 
> thought that is means that the article must not be copied without 
> expressed permission by the copyright holder.
> 
> It seems that the PTG and the Journal go to great lengths to assure 
> copyright on their (our) materials.  Would it be OK for anyone to copy 
> a Journal article and make it public, say on a web site of piano forum? 
>   I suspect not.
> 
> If there is indeed copyright infringement going on with reproduction of 
> the Playbill article on the CAUT list, can it be that the PTG is being 
> exposed to legal risk, as this list is part of the PTG website?
> 
> I don't want to berate anyone here, I am just asking for clarification.
> 
> Jurgen Goering
> 

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