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From: (Gordon Johnson)
Subject: Re: U.S. Copyright Law (was: several related threads with diffeent titles)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:54:46 GMT
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> Naturally, all votes cannot be equal in a academic environment, where
>you have professionals and hobbyists intermingaling because the level of
>expertise is to disparate; so the votes should be similar to the house of
>representative's system.
>
>1 point = member of forum
>1 point = College degree
>1 point = Published Author

>Best Wishes,
>Phil
** You get back to an honour system, for if I tell you I have a
degree, how do you know I am telling you the truth? Is the moderator
going to search university and college records to confirm every such
claim?
And what is your definition of published author? A magazine article, a
booklet, an academic tome? How do editors fit into that?
I think it might be simpler to have all members of the forum vote for
a jury, that being those whose contributions to the forum have most
respect, and let them decide on the matters of concern.
Gordon.


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