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In article <3jn9q2$ai0@news.onramp.net>,
   hcm@onramp.net (Hank Mishkoff) wrote:
=|nemo@ctr.columbia.edu (Nemo Semret) writes:
=|>I was wondering, who owns the copyright for WWW homepages? Is it 
the
=|>institution which owns the machines (in my case the university) or 
the
=|>author of the content?
=|>
=|I think this raises another interesting point: Assuming, for the 
sake of 
=|argument, that the author is the owner of the Web page, how is the 
=|copyright law affected by the fact that the Web is a client-server 
=|system? Which means that the only way that you can read a Web page 
is to 
=|*copy* it from the server to your client PC? And since most Web 
software 
=|uses some kind of buffer, a copy of that Web page may reside on your 
PC 
=|long after you've terminated your Web session.
=|
=|At what point are you in violation of copyright law? Obviously, not 
when 
=|you *look* at the page, even though to do so you have to make a 
copy; if 
=|that were a violation of law, the Web wouldn't be usable at all. (I 
think 
=|you could make a good case that everyone who puts a page on the Web 
must 
=|intend for that initial client-server copy to be made.) What if you 
like 
=|what you've seen, so you show it other people? What if you make some 
=|changes to improve on it? What if you make some changes and then 
claim it 
=|as your own work?
=|
=|It seems to me that only my last example is a clear violation of the 
=|spirit of copyright laws. But there are many intermediate steps in 
=|reaching that point (the first of which is essential to the 
operation of 
=|the system); at what point have you broken the law?
=|
=|I'm sure this seems like real nit-picking, but I predict that this 
will 
=|become a real issue sooner or later.

	Private web pages -copywright? -passworded? -subscribed (pay)?
	Public web pages  -nonCopywright?

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