AW: Stealing images from the galactic gauntlet zip file?

[Richmond]

On 2.11.2013 18:08, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Cyril Pruszko <cypruszko at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fair use is a descendant of the Statute of Anne of 1709, enacted by Great
>> Britain. It has since existed in common law but the US first officially
>> recognized it in its copyright laws.
>
> Uhmm . . .
>
> The Statute of Anne is a statute, not Common Law.
>
> It modified and displaced part of the Common Law of England, but ouldn't
> possibly beocme part of it.
>
>  From the limited amount I know about 18th century legal practice here, I
> presume it would have been accepted as law in the US until there was a US
> statute (The Constitution explicitly accepted the existing Common Law)
>
>

The Statute of Anne of 1709 is only valid if people agree to be bound by 
a statute coming
from a ruler and/or political body held to be legitimate.

Various ideas come into play here, such as 'social contract'.

Jacobites do not accept any 'monarchs' in Britain since 1688, and their 
parliaments, as having anything further
than de facto legitimacy; nor, for that matter a colony that declared a 
unilateral declaration of independence
from that illegitimate body.

As His Britannic Majesty King Francis II, the legal monarch of the 
countries inwith the British Isles and the
North American colonies, has made no comment whatsoever about copyright, 
and nor have any of our
previous monarch, one might almost say that those who are Jacobites 
regard 'copyright' as some sort
of nebulous idea that exists in the heads of fantasists who believe in 
the legitimacy of various spurious
political bodies such as "The United States of America" and "The United 
Kingdom".

So, Jacobites are best to work on a far simpler basis, that is by asking 
whoever has produced some work whether they would object to it being 
used elsewhere.

This all seems so much easier than copyright, copyleft, and copywrong.

Richmond.