Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : David Golden
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 06:44 am

>> I would have lied to 

[Trivially,just because a lie might make you happy doesn't stop it being
a lie.  The author datum would be misinformative in the case of
plagiarism]

> and likely defrauded whoever I supplied 
>> plagiarised copies _to_.
> 
> Why?  They bought something that you signed your name to. 

Bought?  I said "supplied".  No copyright, remember? People aren't
going to pay much for copies. A plagiarist might even give copies
away widely to try and spread the misinformation that he authored
the information: The motivation for the plagiarism is to mislead people
into believing the plagiarist, not the original author, is responsible
for the information production, so that the plagiarist rather than the
original author, is hired for services of authorship instead of the
real author - and, given people's tendency to voluntarily pay authors,
such tip money they intended for the author of the information would
also be diverted to the plagiarist.

Hey, I know, how about a right to be identified as the author...
 
> If they wanted  something directly from Rowland, they would 
> have asked. 

Yup... Only the thing they might want is not necessarily another copy of
an existing disclosed information pattern they can get elsewhere, but
the production and release of a novel information pattern, and R. is
approached based on previous strength and for continuity.

If misled into believing the plagiarist rather than the true author
authored the information, the consortium formed to organise payment
would end up asking the wrong person for the service of production and
release.

> And J.K.Rowling still has the $3 she got for the 
> version you scanned

Why would she disclose to me for $3?

Of course, she would need build a rep for herself before commanding very
high fees for the service of writing new books or disclosing new books,
of course, so if it was her first book, perhaps she wouldn't get a huge
amount for disclosure.  (though if she e.g. released a gripping 3
chapters, left 1000s of people wondering what happened next, and said
the rest would only be released on payment of X 1000s credits to her by
a person or group of people...)

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