Re: Not copyrighting facts (RE: copyrighting FACTS???)

["Charles Oppenheim" <C.Oppenheim@lboro.ac.uk>]

All I can say is that I very much hope Mr Johnson's opinion is not typical
of liblicense readers!

Charles

Professor Charles Oppenheim
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth Johnson" <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>; <C.Oppenheim@lboro.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: Not copyrighting facts (RE: copyrighting FACTS???)

> Information is intrinsically free.  The cost of producing has no
> bearing on it.  Once it's available, once it's published, it's mine,
> it's yours, it's everybody's.  Don't forget that.
>
> To put it another way, with a slight nod towards recognizing the
> practical impact of things: The "threat" of information technology is
> not the ease of copying; it is not in fact a "threat" at all.  What we
> now confront is simply the fact that we cannot evade this ineradicable
> truth.
>
> Seth Johnson