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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?
>>

Given the nature of the Web as an international community based more on
sharing of knowledge and resource I think the nature of copyright should
be directed more toward included text rather than web pages themselves.

If someone or someones and many many companies, unversities, etc share
their resource along the way you could not be reading this post.

If someone or someones and many many developers had not made the HTML
format available and had not made available example text you would not 
be producing home pages. 

The web and the internet should be place of sharing. If you don't want
your web page used as a template by others for expansion and develpment
perhaps you shouldn't publish it on the net. 

Besides, I haven't seen any web pages that are all that fantastic. Now 
the material included in some of these pages is quite extrordinary.

Obviously if someone includes a poem, story, book, etc. that must be
protected. 

If someone mirrors a copy of my poem on the internet have they infringed
upon my copyright? If they provide a pointer to my poem have they 
infringed?

The only clear case is when someone pulls material from the net and 
places it in print, diskette or other off net distribution. That
doesn't seem very nice.

For myself, I would like to provide electronic copies of my science 
fiction.

I know that some of these thoughts are simplistic and don't really
take into consideration the rapid development of commerce on the net
and the growing needs of those that want to cash in on the net.

That's okay. I don't mind being simplistic. I like the simple act of 
sharing that the net started as. 

Too many developers have given too many hours for me to feel like some
fancy looking web page should have a copyright.

brdotwn@oro.net

without giving permission for someone to sell the book to Dell.