Re: (Fwd) Copyright

[dlevy@xxxxxxxxxx]

At 07:57  16/10/96 +0100, you wrote:

Theft is theft regardless of how you disguise it or justify it!! If there is
data provided by companies which you have listed, they may still have active
copyrights on that information. They would have given a 1 time publication
to the author most likely and unless the information is obsolete have
probably republished or renewed the rights. You people are really treading
on dangerous grounds!



>Chris, we are talking about a scientific book from the year 1946,
>written by one of the leading employees at Kodak Rochester
>Laboratories, Walter Clark; and dedicated to Dr. C.E.K. Mees, head
>of Kodak Research. It contains material that none of us mortal souls
>could ever dig up again, including data provided by Ilford, Agfa,
>Corning Glass and Carl-Zeiss. This is *NOT* a mainstream photo book,
>this is written by one of the Godfathers of modern IR-film. The 
>author is almost certainly dead, and the publisher doesn't exist 
>anymore. There are no later editions, and the book is extremely rare.
>
>If copyright means depriving us from this kind of historical
>information, Walter would probably return from his grave to tell us
>otherwise. He would never find eternal rest if we just collected his
>book for the sake of collecting and did *not* spread his ancient
>words.
>And believe me, he would have been proud of us using this 
>modern medium for sharing his information. Very proud. 
>At least I would.
>
>To end with a nice quote with which this books starts (yep, I got it 
>Tammy!):
>
>"...the eye of the camera would see plainly where the human eye would 
>find nothing but darkness. Alas! that this speculation is somewhat 
>too refined to be introduced with effect into a modern novel or 
>romance; for what a denouement we should have, if we could suppose 
>the secrets of the darkened chammber to be revealed by the testimony 
>of the imprinted paper."
>
>William Henry Fox Talbot, "The Pencil of Nature," 1844.
>
>(note similarity of above first name with your's truly once 
>again...:-))
>
>--
>Bye,
>
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>      The desire to understand 
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>     the inability to understand
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>[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
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Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto, Ont.
dlevy@xxxxxxxxxx


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