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  • From: "Welna.Sarah" <welna AT niehs.nih.gov>
  • To: "'InterNetWorkers'" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: MS How-To-Disable Smart Tags
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:17:33 -0400


i've been searching for news/tech articles about the copyright
issue... if anybody knows of any URLs, could you send them on?
thanks!
s.

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> From: Michael S
> Czeiszperger[SMTP:czei AT webperformanceinc.com]
> Sent: 2001-Jun-25 1:14 PM
> Subject: [internetworkers] RE: MS How-To-Disable Smart Tags
>
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> In my opinion smart tags are a copyright issue, not a user issue.
> While
> user's have control over some basic layout parameters such as font
> size, the
> copyright owner of a page has control over the actual text, and what
> that
> text links to. By modifying the content of an original work, Smart
> Tags
> violates the copyright of documents, and I fully expect MS to be
> sued over
> them, and rightfully so.
>
> What's next, "Smart Banner Ads", where MS replaces the
> advertisements on a
> site with advertisements of its own?
>
> - --
> Michael S Czeiszperger
> czei AT webperformanceinc.com
>
>




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