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Re: Can a law firm sue Google over "New Google Newsgroups"
Posted:
Jul 26, 2012 8:44 PM
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K Wills wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:04:15 -0700, "Bill Graham" <weg9@comcast.net>
> wrote:
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>> Jos Bergervoet wrote:
>>> On 7/25/2012 11:23 PM, K Wills wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:59:54 -0500, deadrat <a@b.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>>>> In some states, artists may sue
>>>>>>> you and recover damages if you alter or destroy their works
>>>>>>> without permission.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Even if I own them? That makes no sense to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Surprised me, too. It's an extension of intellectual property
>>>>> rights that gives the artist a legal interest in the ends to which
>>>>> his work is put to. It's not universal.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a case in which an artist won a lawsuit against a vendor
>>>>> who resold his work, framed. Apparently the framed canvasses
>>>>> constituted a derivative work.
>>>>
>>>> Now that is pure stupidity.
>>>
>>> Don't you have any respect for the law?!
>>>
>>>> A frame?
>>>> I do hope the ruling was appealed and overturned.
>>>
>>> Oh, I see! You're more concerned about the
>>> earnings of the lawyers :-)
>>
>> Opens up a whole new can of worms. Exactly what is a, "work of art"?
>> If you work in a furniture factory, does every chair you produce
>> constitute a work of art? So, if somebody you don't like sits in it,
>> can you sue them? Sounds like liberal stupidity to me, but what do I
>> know?
>
> If one claims the chair is a work of art, the builder would
> probably fall under Work for Hire, since it was made in a furniture
> factory. This means the builder will not have any say in the use or
> display of the chair.
> Even so, the idea that someone can sue because the owner of an
> item chose to ruin that item is pure stupidity.
Still, I don't want my government deciding what is a work of art and what
isn't, and making laws that control my use of it. That's not their job, man.
There are some people (Me) who just want the government to stay the hell out
of our private lives. (And while they are at it, they can stop supporting
art and artists with my tax dollars, too.)
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