Head of S.F.'s Library Resigns Under Pressure (fwd) -

[Marc Salomon]

Millard Johnson <zendog at incolsa.palni.edu>
|Is it not clear that sending this story was a violation of law,
|and that posting it is either ignorance of the law or an act
|of civil disobedience?

Ignorance AND Civil Disobedience.

The size of the article was less than 500 words.  The article was redistributed
properly cited, on a not-for-profit basis, to a self-selected discussion group,
the sum total of which makes for an on-going work of literature.  I paid $0.50
for the print copy on my way to work, and redistributing an electronic copy of
work paid for in the above manner is no different than doing so with
photocopies of the paper piece.

Given the murky nature of fair-use copyright law and the SFNA's (JOA umbrella
for the Chronaminer) preference for secrecy, I'd go to court on the above.  The
Chron had given Dowlin its utmost support until it became clear that the
Emperor (Dowlin, not Brown) wore no clothes, or at least couldn't manage the
money to pay for the clothes.  The Chron was more than an idle observer in this
case, rather a participant; the nature of its coverage of the local political
elite, based on its booster-prone editorial posture, is news in and of itself.
 You can't influence (create?) the news on a day-to-day basis and then step
back and claim objectivity and a separateness from those events, especially as
a government licensed monopoly.

When corporations, as legal creations equivalent to people, are forced to
adhere to the same rules in society as flesh and blood humans, as real people,
then my respect for corporate intellectual property rights will rise to the
level of my respect for the intellectual property rights of works created and
owned by the individual.

-marc

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