On 12 Jul 2005 at 13:27, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > >I'm looking for consensus from the group before I send a formal > >takedown notice to their web hosts. > > Yes, I acknowledge that it is your creative work. I see the > discussions here as on the same order as if we were meeting in a > publick house for discussion. . . .
What if someone recorded your discussions in the pub and then broadcast them on a public television station? Would you be OK with that, since your words were spoken in a public place? I don't know about the UK (I believe you're in the UK?), but in the US, you can't record someone without their permission. And you certainly can't broadcast a recording without permission to broadcast even when you have permission to record the conversation. It seems like sound law to me, as the presumption is on the side of the individual's rights to privacy. > . . . Yes, your comments are your creative > effort, but it is also accurate to report what you wrote. I don't know what this means. If you're quoting as a matter of reporting what happened, that's one thing, and, perhaps, OK. If you're republishing everything in a completely unchanged form, that's vastly different. > I think the greater interests of the community are such that I vote > "nay" to your request to remove your posts. > > Further, as a practical matter, how do you deal with the issue of > other subscribers not being particularly careful to trim out your > posts? Even if your posts are removed, it may not be possible to > remove those parts of your posts--in some cases, the entire thing, > perhaps--included in the posts of others. It seems to me that, as with the US laws on sound recordings, one ought to err on the side of caution. There is no automatic right to republish content distributed in a completely different forum. That it is easy to do makes it neither right nor pointless to fight. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
