RE: Installing Xy under 32-bit Win; Manual; ANSI

[Ed Cray cray@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Bauman:

As a professional writer, I must take exception to your bizarre notion
that an "abandoned" copyright is in the public domain. A copyright is
"abandoned" (i.e. relinquished) only at the end of its term.

I have a number of books still under copyright protection which the
publishers -- not recognizing my genius -- have let go out of print. Does
this mean they are in the public domain?

Hardly.

And if you copy the book before I get it back into print with another
publisher, you stealing my property.

Ed Cray


On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Norman Bauman wrote:

> >From an ethical POV, we have on the one hand, abandoned property that none
> of its creators wants to use, profit from, or make available, and that they
> apparently don't care about.
>
> On the other hand, this property is useful to others, including the people
> like me who bought their property when they were selling it. I bought
> XyWrite with the understanding that they'd be around when I needed them.
>
> I can think of lots of legitimate reasons for somebody copying XyWrite and
> XyQuest software and manuals.
>
> Copying abandoned software and manuals is fair use. If J.D. Salinger wasn't
> around to complain, it would be fair use to copy his works too.
>
> Norman
>
> At 02:04 PM 8/15/02 -0700, Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >You mean, "as if somebody might still be able to make money off that
> property and I'm stealing the bread from their mouth" kind of "as if"?
> >
> >...except that nobody seems to have any desire to make any money from what
> I want to offer...and offer for free. I don't concede your point.
>
>
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