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[P3D Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "INTERNET:photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Give it up, Tom]

> One of our fellow Photo-3D contributors, Alexander Klein, has several=20 > Web pages listing the known Tru-Vue production titles, with marks=20 > indicating which titles he has and those he does not=20 > (http://www.bawue.de/~stereo/truvue.html). Unfortunately, these lists=20 > are a portion of a copyrighted article that I wrote last year for the=20 > VTCA's "ReView".
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>To be fair, if you think that I am out of line by posting this on the=20 >list, send in a line saying "Give it up Tom", and I will keep my mouth=20 >shut.

I have not seen Alex's site, but it seems to me that if, as you describe, it is merely a list of Tru-Vue titles, you have no more copyright ownership than he does--like you, he simply reproduced the list from available sources--you used your sources, and you just happened to be his. An article or essay of some sort would be one matter, but a list of titles that you've compiled from other sources yourself strikes me as pretty much public domain material. The border Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 15:14:44 -0500
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between research and plagiarism may be a thin one (especially to the source of the material) but judging purely from information supplied by you, it doesn't seem to have been crossed here.

Having said that, let me make it clear that I am the first to admit that the whole subject of copyrighted material is taken much too lightly (i.e., ignored completely) on Internet. While this does engender a more freely available core of information, it doesn't exactly spur those of us who spend a lot of time and money and effort in creating something to continue doing it when we see others freely distributing that which we created and hoped to make a buck from. In fact, I was nearly sued last year by a major movie studio when a photo which I'd paid a small fortune for exclusive use of--and agreed to lots of restrictions in that use--was subsequently scanned from my book by some kid who spread it all over the Internet in direct violation of my contract! There's a really excellent industry contact gone up in smoke!


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