- From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 13:29:18 -0700
- To: uri@bunyip.com
I think Ron answered Brian's questions about VRML the way I would. I want to take issue again with Brian's suggestion that wrt global annotations, >The right to >attach these comments should *not* be controlled by the author I've argued against this in the past on copyright grounds (and I still feel that way). However, Justice Souter's recent decision in Hurley v. Irish-American GLB Group of Boston suggests that there is a First Amendment angle: "The fundamental rule of protection under the First Amendment ... [is] that a speaker has the autonomy to choose the content of his own message." I maintain that the Hurley case is precisely parallel to what global annos without author permission would amount to: the I-A GLB G of Boston wanted to comment on the parade without the permission of the parade organizers (who won). For excerpts, see NYT Tuesday, June 26 1995. Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html
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