At 09:27 AM 7/12/05 -0400, Phil Daley wrote: >Then he needs to mark every message with a Copyright statement. >Otherwise he hasn't a leg to stand on, legally.
Not quite. To initiate a lawsuit, registration is required. But since 1988, section 401a says that copyright notice may be placed on publicly distributed copies from which the work can be visually perceived. This was substituted for shall be placed on," and follows the silent notice concept of Geneva. Neither fact affects the exclusive rights under section 106. And beyond that, sections 408a and 408c2 let me register a yearly bulk of my postings at any time within the first copyright term -- and *then* initiate a lawsuit. :) So the remedy is there if it's needed, but look, it doesn't change the de facto theft of my creative work, mundane as it may seem. Furthermore, these guys make money from ad clicks on what is basically an automated service exploiting the work of thousands of authors, and that is unacceptable to me. I'm looking for consensus from the group before I send a formal takedown notice to their web hosts. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
