On 12 Jul 2005 at 9:27, Phil Daley wrote: > At 7/12/2005 09:13 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > > I agree with Aaron. > > >This is a very good point. Dennis has already made generally > available >for free a whole cartload of his work (musical and verbal) > while >retaining his copyright, on his various websites. No doubt he > considers >his writings here to be similar. > > Then he needs to mark every message with a Copyright statement.
BZZZZTTTT!!!!! The default for copyright is NO ONE HAS RIGHTS TO DISTRIBUTE/COPY EXCEPT THE ORIGINAL CREATOR. Absent a copyright notice THE MOST RESTRICTIVE INTERPRETATION APPLIES. > Otherwise he hasn't a leg to stand on, legally. BZZZZTTTTT AGAIN!!!!! You've got it exactly wrong. It's only if there's an explicit notice allowing reposting of content that anyone has any rights to do so. I see that most people here (or, at least, the people who seem to be expressing opinions in this thread) are painfully ignorant of the basics of copyright law, despite the voluminous discussions of the topic that have taken place on this list. A useful primer on the subject: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
