Subject: Re: [FFML] [FFML] [Q][fanfic] western FF in Japan
From: Nabiki Tendo
Date: 5/6/1997, 9:21 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

At 12:37 PM 5/6/97 -0700, you wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Nabiki Tendo wrote:

Actually.. ^^;; *feeling REAL squirmish about counter what the Pizza-Slayer

(looks appropriately intimidating..) I will squash your pizzas so long as
you may live!! wahahaha!!

has said.. :)*

Copyright infringement has little or nothing to do with selling. It is the
reproduction or use of an idea, item, design, etc.. without permission and/or
due credit to the creator. 

Isn't that what we do? Ie, Ranma is the sole creationof godess Takahashi? If
this doesnt potray her as a diety and give her credit what does?

For instance, if we were to rip off.. er.. I meant, copy Windows95 or anyother
of the operating systems out there and GIVE the copies to friends and/or
people, we aren't selling it, and we are giving due credit to the creators,
but we ARE commiting violations of the copyright law. {The above example is, I

Yes, but if you wrote your own system similar but not poaching off of win
95, not selling it, just giving it out, would that bve a crime? We aren't
copying tapes here :P

believe, called pirating in case ~some~ people didn't know ^_-}
 
Oh yah, and where did your copy come from? >:)

If you were to write a fanfic using someone else's creation, and you do so,
it's okay until the original author complains and tells you not to.

Well, write ranma ficcys cause Takahashi doesnt mind then ^_^
And the people at pioneer know about tenchi fics..

they
value their copyright and works, will be forced to sue the person in >court.

You forget the fact that they just don't care ^_^ Besides! You cant sue the
penniless!

*smiles* anytime, anywhere, anyway. :p

Ohhh H_- (j/k)


Wing. [ Wow.. wonder what the pizza casualties are now.. :p ]

- On the wings of dreams, shall love take flight, upon winds of life. -

Aren't those heavy?

-Nabby!
-Scuse me, is that a postaccio tree?- Eric no baka




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