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Anthony osm at inbox.org
Sun Jan 22 15:03:08 EST 2012


On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 January 2012 13:36:38 Anthony wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
>> > Let's say you include an ARR quote in a BY-SA work without properly
>> > indicating what is what. Could another person come along and pull that
>> > quote out thinking it is by-sa and use it in another work in a way that
>> > would be ok under a by-sa license but would not be considered a fair use
>> > of the ARR work in its new home?
>>
>> They could.  But it would be a copyright infringement to do so.
>>
>> > And with felonies and jail time and all the other fun dangers coming into
>> > play these days...
>>
>> Oh please.  No one is going to be charged with a felony or face any
>> jail time for such obviously accidental infringement.
>
> So you say. Do you run things?

Run things?  I'm not sure what you mean.

> I have been assured by a local lawyer that under our new laws, you can go to
> jail for 4 or 5 years for simple possession of a knock off cd or dvd disk.
> One which you bought in good faith from a still operating store in your city.
> Oh and plus a fine of more than $20,000 dollars for possession of that one
> copy. (You being someone living in the country where I do.)

What country is that?


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