On 12 Jul 2005 at 15:03, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 12 Jul 2005, at 12:47 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > Andrew Stiller wrote: > >>>> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: > >>>> I'm looking for consensus from the group before I send a formal > >>>> takedown notice to their web hosts. > >> > >> You'll get no such agreement from me. If copyright subsists in > >> these > >> postings, then it should not. Have you all gone nuts? > >> Andrew Stiller > > > > I second Andrew's comment. Of all the copyright issues to be > > worried about, this has to rank way down the bottom. What next, > > objecting to people remembering what you say in the pub?! > > Thirded. This is like objecting to internet search engines. > Searchable online list archives benefit everyone.
No, it's not like that at all -- it's extremely different. Google archives publicly available content. This archiving of posts to this list would be like somebody archiving content on my website that: 1. has no links from any other website and is not linked from anywhere on my own website 2. has not been sent to Google explicitly requesting that it be archived. The definition of public is that it can be reached without someone else's permission. The content of this list was previously accessible only to person's who had the permission of the listowner (and his software agent, the listserv software). Now it's available to anyone. > If you're *that* concerned about copyright, then don't post here. That's the best argument I've seen for taking down the Opensubscriber.com archive -- you've basically boiled it down to a choice between retaining control of your words and participating in discussions in this forum. That's a pretty sad choice. And it's especially sad considering that the republication is being done by someone who has no association whatsoever with this forum and its interests. -- 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
