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It was me. Mea culpa.
Thx for the comprehensive response. I have nothing to do with the site but
if I recall Nate copied large slabs and didn't recognise authorship. It
certainly is no big deal. Nate I'm sure can sleep at night. Look at the
rip off that Napster was and look what it took to shut it down. I don't
think a little promulgation amongst several hundred thousand AmiBroker users
(BTW this is tomasz's favourite dream last thing before he drifts off at
night) is going to cause any lasting problem.
P
----- Original Message -----
From: <b519b@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Damage Control and Copyright
> --- In amibroker@xxxx, "Dr. S. Nathan Berger" <snberger@xxxx> wrote:
> I have done a bad thing. One of our members has notified me I posted
> the Risk Management program in violation of the publisher's
> directive. Since this is already an un-erasable mistake, perhaps I
> can atone by giving credit where it is due..... I can recommend them
> highly to everyone- with your understanding that I do so only
> as "repayment" for infringing on their copyrights. You can access
> them at: https://www.rightline.net/subscribe/index.html
> My apologies to them and everyone else.
>
> *************
> Dear Nate:
>
> Thanks for posting the URL to rightline. It is an interesting site
> with some ideas for risk management/damage control/stop loss. In my
> reading, it suggests what is most important is not the 2% capital
> preservation guideline but to have some well thought out rule and to
> stick to that rule. For others interested this is the URL
> http://www.rightline.net/education/managingrisk.html
>
> I am more than disappointed that someone has suggested that copyright
> prevents the free discussion of ideas in general, and in particular,
> discussion of ideas contained in published, copyright articles. If
> the information in the article was protected by a non-disclosure
> agreement that you signed, then you could not share the information
> with us. But copyright is not a non-disclosure agreement. Copyright
> does not prevent you from sharing information; it just prevents you
> from copying the author's words to do the sharing. Copyright law even
> allows us to use short quotations (ie short copies) of the author's
> words for purposes of discussion and comment. The article with the 2%
> capital protection rule can hardly be considered a propriety, non-
> disclosure material since the author/publisher has choosen to let the
> public read it at the above URL without requiring the signing of a
> non-disclosure agreement.
>
> Although there are exceptions -- there has to be something for
> lawyers to argue about -- the general principle of copyright is the
> protection of the WORDS but not the information the words
> communicate. Although some authors/publishers might not like to think
> so, the purpose of copyright law is to promote progress in society
> buy giving a few, restricted rights to authors/publishers and by
> giving considerable rights to readers and society in general. By
> restricting copying, copyright law gives authors the potential to
> make some money (and this benefits society by encouraging people to
> share their ideas with the public). By allowing the public to share
> these ideas and discuss them, society benefits by accelerating the
> creation of new ideas and the detection and correction of bad ones.
> Copyright balances the rights of the author and society.
>
> So let's not give in to those who seek to restrict free discussion of
> ideas and information published in copyright material. If an author
> wants to completely control sharing of their ideas they can do so by
> forgoing publication and demanding signed non-disclosure contracts.
> Society, through its copyright laws entices authors to publish (ie,
> make public, see the connection of the two words) their ideas -- the
> enticement is the potential profit from sale of copies. The act of
> publishing (ie, making public) gives society the opportunity to share
> and discuss the the ideas and information published as long as we use
> our own words. Let's not give up the freedoms we have.
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