Re: "UNIX In Plain English" by Kevin Richard & Eric F. Johnson,MIS Press. (Reading List HOWTO)

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The law is somewhat vague on copyright because of the lack of stare
decisis on the internet, and some use the Fair Use Doctrine, but that is
also limiting and generally means one may use some excerpts with comments,
if used for educational purposes or where the work is being reviewed, and
even this can be challenged if you exceed what may be construed as
excessive quoting.

The copyright reserves all rights to Kevin Richad and Eric Foster-Johnson.

"All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reporduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and
retrieval system, without prior written peermission from the Publisher
(which in this case is MOS, a subsidiary of Henry Holt)." So, I would
suggest you get "written" permission by contacting the publisher first. Of
course many times people will violate copyright laws, but simply assuming
an implied right is not a waiver of the rights herein stated.

If the book is on the WEB, it doesn't necessarily mean it is public
domain. Whatever I write is considered to be my property, even if it
appears anywhere on the WEB and my permission would technically have to be
obtained before it could be used. I don't have to attach a copyright
notice to it, nor do I have to specifically state it cannot be used. It
still belongs to me. It is always safer to ask for authorization from the
publisher and the writers.

 Hank


On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, David D.W. Downey wrote:

> Kevin Colby wrote:
> > I have no idea what the authors' intentions are or were, but
> > unless they specifically gave up their right to copy control,
> > they own it.  _ANY_ distribution, online or otherwise, requires
> > the explicit permission of the authors, and anyone distributing
> > without their knowledge or against their wishes is fairly likely
> > to get sued--and lose.
> > 
> 
> Not true. If they have released it out in HTML format or any type of
> format onto the internet WITHOUT stating that there is a fee owed for
> copying it OR stating that passing it out is illegal they have given
> implicit rights to the public domain to do as they wish with it. They
> DO, however, retain copyrights and ownership of the intellectual
> property rights for said material. They MUSt, however, state any
> limitations regarding coppying or reproduction of the material. I know
> this to be true as I have already faced a legal battle over this for
> something *I* wrote when i was younger.
> 
> > If anyone feels like passing books around, you had better check out
> > exactly what the authors allow or you may end up owing them a lot
> > more than $14.95.  If anyone doesn't like this, take it up in court.
> > 
> 
> You are freely able to GIVE AWY the book to someone. Doing this, though,
> means you give up ALL ownership rights to the book and are transfering
> them to the new owner. If there are any warranties on the book (normally
> there are not, but in the event of), they become null and void for the
> new owner. It's sort of an incentive to keep the book. it is NOT illegal
> though to give the book to someone UNLESS the owner physically
> stipulates to the contrary in the book. This is another case of an
> implicit right given to the general public. If it were any other way,
> our countries libraries would be in severe trouble, as would the
> donators.
> 
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