XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british, uk.legal   
   From: me8@privacy.net   
      
   On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 10:02:02 +0100, banana   
    wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
   Yes.   
      
   >   
   >So one person who gets a document via a FOIA request is breaching   
   >copyright if they send the document to someone else?   
   >   
      
   Not if they send the physical document, no.   
      
   But if they copy it, then yes.   
      
   >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?   
   >   
      
   Yes, of course.   
      
   But that does not give anybody *else* the right to copy them.   
      
   >Don't you think you might be tying yourself up in schizoid fashion, sent   
   >mad with rabid State-love?   
      
   No.   
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