RE: How Many Trees? (WAS: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue)

[DaLy <swiggles247 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

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So John, if I take your last paragraph:

"Now, if one of you says "Ya know, I'm going to just
copy the text of the spec sheet and past it into my
doc and apply my styles, but leave the content alone."
Same facts, same content. That is infringement."

and re-write it thusly:

Now, if one person in this group states "You know, I
am going to just copy/paste the text of the monitor's
specification's into my document, apply my styles, but
keep the original contents. The same facts, the same
content. That's infringement.

Legally, there is no infringement (as I did not copy
your paragraph verbatim), but my paragraph is not
really "original" either, as I needed yours to inspire
me. So, is anything truly original (now)?

DaLy

PS: To me the songs "He's so fine" and "My sweet Lord"
sound completely different, but a judge ruled
otherwise.


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