Frank Gilliland wrote in message ...

A law is not a law unless it can be enforced.


I'll remember that next time you lot are whining about CB rules
not being enforced.



You can still go to the originating site and view the picture in all of its
unaltered glory. The -copy- was altered.

Unless the offender breaks into the property of a copyright owner and
mutilates their original copy... then that is ALWAYS the case. If they did
get to the authors original copy, then the case would be one of breaking in
and criminal damage - not copyright.
Even the image on the site will not be an "original"... that is a copy of an
image held somewhere else.


You can also publically display copyrighted
material all you want if you are the owner of the copyright.


That was never in dispute.


Registration is -not- a requirement for copyright protection. It -IS- a
requirement to seek civil remedies for infringement.


Exactly.
Just remember not to whine about non-enforcement of CB rules, because the
FCC believe that the results do not justify the costs of action large enough
to make even a small dent in the "problem".
We get the same over here, CB rules have been broken for years. The RIS got
so fed up with being snowed under while under-funded, that they found a way
around it:
1. Remove and change rules to make those people legal.
2. Force victims of interference to take a long and costly
"remedy - or suffer".

The number of violators dropped rather quickly when they removed most of
the unenforceable rules... and then again when they effectively stopped the
complaints by putting the procedure out of sight and out of reach.

At least we all know where you stand on the matter of "infringement" (law
breaking)... it's fine to "freeband", as long as nobody can claim those
frequencies are being "stolen" from them.
Anyway, they still have the original frequencies in their radio...
freebanders are only using the copies in their radios :~)