Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!midway!gargoyle!chinet!magik From: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: The difference between private investigators and databases Message-ID: <1991Jan03.053734.11715@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 3 Jan 91 05:37:34 GMT References: <14470@hoptoad.uucp> <50222@cornell.UUCP> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 25 In article <50222@cornell.UUCP> wayner@cello.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes: > >One solution may be to make a person's actions "copyright" by that person. >It's as if life was just one long performance art piece. (Which for some >of us, it is.) Now that would mean that the marketeer who sold my >penchant for preppie polo shirts to the J.Crew would be infringing on >my copyright. But what about the folks at J.Crew? If I called them up >and purchased something, wouldn't their half of the interaction be >copyright by them? Couldn't they sell "Reproduction Rights" to the >purchase experience to another marketeer? It was just as much their >performance as mine? > >This is a tricky one, not an obvious knee-jerk one. > >-Peter >Peter Wayner Department of Computer Science Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY 14850 >EMail:wayner@cs.cornell.edu Office: 607-255-9202 or 255-1008 >Home: 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-277-6678 Why can't you both hold claim to the experience such that you must both give permission for the experience to be sold for profit. -- ------------ ------------ ---------------------- Ben Liberman USENET magik@chinet.chi.il.us GEnie,Delphi MAGIK