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From: "Paul \"Froggy\" Schneider" <froggy@eecs.cwru.edu>
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Subject: Re: ASCII Rip Off? Re: I design an amusing soft to manage ASCII art
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"Bateau" <ItsFAKE@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote in message
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> hola bug, soy una robusteza!
> >It was a beautiful day/night Sun, 21 Oct 2001 04:45:53 GMT, when
> >shedragon@lycos.com (ldb) wrote in alt.ascii-art that:
> >
> >>So, he/ she is charging 10 bucks for this program. How much of that is
> >>he/ she paying the ascii artists? Is he/ she at least keeping artist
> >>initials on the ascii art?
> >
> >If he gets money for using his program and this program contains
> >somebody elses pictures and he's not paying fees to authors than he's
> >braking the law...  I think.
>
> Correct. Copyright applies to ascii art as soon as it's created just
> like everything else.

Thing is, you can't sue for compensatory damages, but you can sue him to
get him to stop using the images.  In order to sue for compensatory
damages you have to actually register the copyright, which is quite
expensive.

- Froggy