Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: compilation copyright question Summary: answer Keywords: poster's rights Message-ID: <5609@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 18:58:31 GMT References: <5982@leadsv.UUCP> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 36 In article <5982@leadsv.UUCP> webb@leadsv.UUCP (J.J. Webb) writes: Suppose I post a poem, program, funny story, etc. and affix a copyright statement to it. Now, [somebody compiles something including my work and] declares a compilation copyright [on it]. If he/she didn't get my permission, aren't my rights being violated? Any violation of your rights occurs, if it occurs, when your work is copied for inclusion in the collection. If you allowed it to be included, then there is no problem. If you didn't allow it to be included, then your legal rights are violated already even if there is no compilation copyright claimed. The act of claiming the compilation copyright does not abridge your own legal rights. The compilation copyright does not supersede your own copyright. You are free to explicitly disallow the copying of your work for inclusion in collections over which a compilation copyright is claimed. Magazines usually hold a compilation copyright on each issue. You will often find a copyright statement at the bottom of a page that contains advertisements. Yet these same advertisements will also be found in other magazines too. This doesn't mean that any of these magazines hold a copyright on the individual advertisement (the ad agency that designed each ad probably does, or its client). But each magazine is claiming a copyright on the layout of the magazine. If you copied an entire page of ads from a magazine that contained several ads laid out in some special way, then you could possible get sued (and lose too). If you copied a single ad, only the ad agency would be able to sue. P.S. I'm not a lawyer, I just know how to sound like one. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi ARPA: bsu-cs!dhesi@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu