At 8:30 AM 06/15/03, David H. Bailey wrote:

>Of extreme interest, though is the VERY sweeping copyright notice:
>"Copyright � 1999 by Alan W. Pollack. All Rights Reserved. This article
>may be reproduced, retransmitted, redistributed and otherwise propagated
>at will, provided that this notice remains intact and in place."
>
>It says, all rights reserved, then it grants the right to reproduce,
>etc. that article at will.  Doesn't that grant anybody the right to
>print their own version of a book, earn money from Pollack's work, and
>not have to pay him anything, as long as his copyright notice
>accompanies each song's analysis?

Yes, that's how I read it.

>Seems like way too broad a copyright
>notice to publish on the web!

Doesn't seem so unusual to me.  If your purpose in writing is simply to
communicate your ideas to others, your attitude will naturally be "anyone
can reprint this so long as I get the credit", which is essentially what
this notice says. It's sensible to state it up front; otherwise you either
field a bunch of requests or don't get reprinted.

The one thing that's missing here is that notices of this sort often
include an explicit instruction that the article must be kept intact and
not edited.

mdl


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