[lit-ideas] Re: What is information?
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:20:11 -0400
Robert Paul writes:
: Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
:
: > down to it--is an author's mental processes (and not marks on paper or some
: > other embodied medium?).
:
: ?medium)?
Try leaving out the "embodied,"" And "substrate" or, as the
Copyright Act calls it, "tangible medium of expression."
:
: (Coffee meter is at .125.)
:
: R. Paul
I think that a large part of the problem is that it is difficult
for people to draw a distinction between the information and
the substrate. It's sort of like telling the dancer from the
dance.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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