On 28 Apr, 13:14, Richard Clark wrote:
On 28 Apr 2007 11:18:14 -0700, art wrote:

AO program by Brian Beazely which is
Minninec based but Brian
has not supported that program in years. Based on that info I suspect
that could be classed now as freeware so a Google search may well
supply a user that is willing to provide a copy.

This would be a clear case of piracy and the violation of copyright
held by the owner. Any attempts of others to provide "free" or "paid"
copies are violating that law.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Nothing is "clear" with respect to copyright. As with patents there
are rules that must be followed and the particulars of the particular
copyright has to be clear and approved which may not apply to the
subject as a whole. Even music moguls are finding it hard to control
copying and on top of that there are several exemptions with respect
to educational and libraries neither of which have been specifically
defined in changes by Congress in the latter part of the last century.
The antenna programmers also suffer from the fact that the general
routines were supplied by the government for general use which also
apply restrictions as to what specifically can be copyrighted. I
believe also that if a transfer is made via public E mail
can allow further reductions as to what is termed infringment. For
antenna programs I would assume that such a thing as an algorithm can
be copy righted but to try and cover all screen representations could
possibly be a nightmare. The bottom line is of course is that you are
copying something that was put together in some sort of ingenious way
then it is not yours to copy but people use the copy machines with
abandon so attorneys would have a field day with respect to expenses
in areas so murkey as copyright laws which is presently crippling the
music industry since infringment is enourmous and recompense for
violation is ridiculously small on a case by case basis. If a library
owns a copy and then makes another copy for patrons use you again get
into another murky area because that involves a exception area that is
not clear in substance.
Art