Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:06:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> Subject: Re: S100 archive? On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, M H Stein wrote: ------ My point exactly; a manual, and especially a scan or copy are the embodiment, not the IP itself; I think you'd have trouble copyrighting a copy of a copyrighted work. We were talking about "attribution;" if I were to quote one of Mark Twain's many witticisms it would still be attributed to him, not me. So "attribution" of a copy to one of several other copies of the same thing seems rather meaningless except as a matter of courtesy and I don't understand why some people seem to think it's useful and important information. But, having said that, you're absolutely right: the purpose of the Internet these days is indeed largely "the free sharing and exchange of other people's intellectual property," and a large part of that IP is specifically meant to be shared and exchanged. m