XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british, uk.legal   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Alex Heney   
    writes   
      
   >On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 00:34:23 +0100, banana   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>UK govt lawyers are trying to force Craig Murray to 'unpublish' official   
   >>documents, on the grounds that publication infringes 'Crown copyright'   
   >>even when documents have been obtained under the Data Protection Act or   
   >>Freedom of Information Act.   
   >>   
   >>No shit!   
   >   
   >And just why do you think that is wrong?   
   >   
   >   
   >If you buy a book, you can't photocopy it or scan it and put it up on   
   >the 'net.   
   >   
   >This is no different.   
      
   So the State has to give out information under the two Acts but the form   
   of words remains the State's intellectual property?   
      
   So one person who gets a document via a FOIA request is breaching   
   copyright if they send the document to someone else?   
      
   You do realise that the FOIA means that the State does NOT (in theory)   
   have the right to refuse to copy the given documents and give them to   
   requesters on demand?   
      
   Don't you think you might be tying yourself up in schizoid fashion, sent   
   mad with rabid State-love?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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