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Legal question: Can Evals, Rollouts be copyrighted?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 8 October 2009, at 2:33 p.m.

In Response To: Legal question: Can Evals, Rollouts be copyrighted? (J. Dawkins)

J. Dawkins wrote:

First off, let's remember that there is no such thing as copyright for any kind of object if the object is sold, advertised, distributed or similarly using a Web that was originally made for sharing and distributing, for free, information, research and learning.

Hold on there. This is at best extremely misleading, and probably totally false.

To take an example that I know a lot about, take newspaper comics. You can visit various websites and view today's Dilbert comic strip (for example) for free. This emphatically does not mean that the strip is not copyrighted. It is. If you try to distribute the comic yourself on any sort of scale and the syndicate finds out, they will go after you. If you persist, they will probably take legal action and will probably win.

I don't know where you got your information; perhaps in certain specific cases the courts have battled it out and ruled in favor of the copyer. Even if that is the case, you cannot generalize to anything on the Web.

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