On 12 Jul 2005 at 18:06, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 12 Jul 2005, at 5:09 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > > At 04:54 PM 7/12/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >> That was *not* the case until this third party (completely > >> unrelated to anyone involved with the list) became involved. > > > > And, if anyone cares, I just heard from a Sibelius person (with > > company ties) who's been reading the list at mail-archive.com. Nice > > person, but thought we'd like to know that the list wasn't private. > > > > Cool, huh? Everybody makin' money off our ideas but us. > > Oh please. Sibelius employees have been monitoring this list for > years. They can subscribe, same as anyone else. It seems obvious to > me that the list isn't "private" -- anyone can join.
I never advocated the "private" moniker, but there are degrees of "public." Confusing the public nature of a mailing list with "public domain" for the content posted on that list is, I think, a severe mistake, but that's what those who seem to be advocating the "it's not a private forum" argument seem to me to be doing. As to Sibelius "makin' money off our ideas," they didn't do it by republishing our actual content. Last I heard, ideas can't be copyrighted, but the expression of them in fixed form *can* be copyrighted, and, in fact, *is* copyrighted by default (if I'm remembering correctly, "copyright by default" was one of the parts of the Berne Conventions of ?1978, and by the US signing up for them (perhaps that was what happened in 1978?), it constituted a change in US copyright law). If Sibelius were systematically republishing Finale list posts, I'd be just as opposed to that as I am to these archives that are doing it. -- 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
