🚀 go-pugleaf

I agree that copyright infringement is an important legal issue, but I hope
that we will not see a major flaming match here in net.comics as a result of
this short sighted posting.  It seems to me that there are better forums for
this discussion, but I guess there are people reading this newsgroup that
need to see it.

As long as I'm posting about copyright I'd like to point people to a new
government publication concerning this issue.  It is called _Intellectual_
_Property_Rights_in_an_age_of_Electronics_and_Information_ and was prepared
by the Office of Technology Assessment.  It is a fascinating (to me at least)
study of the history and intent of the intellectual property legislation
including copyright, patent, trade secret, and the new legislation recently
passed to help protect semiconductor designs.  It tries to access the impact
of new technologies such as photocopying (not xeroxing, Xerox is a trademark
of Xerox Corp.), audio and video recording, and computing.  It analyzes the
various types of intellectual properties, the goals of the government in
regulating ownership rights for said properties, and the goals and interests
of affected parties.  It is a 300 page report available for $15 from your
local Government Printing Office outlet (mine told me that the stock number
I needed to order it was 052-003-01036-4, I don't know if that is a general
number or is specific to my local outlet) or your local government document
depository library (of which Georgia Tech's library is one).  I hope someone
more familiar with news and the net than I am will redirect this discussion 
to a more appropriate newsgroup.
-- 
J. Kenneth Riviere   (JoKeR)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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