A thought - was to have Carmine join us, which would be nice, but we
would expand on his good work. It too would avoid legal complications
as well.
On 10/29/2012 01:44 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
Yes, emails are (implied) copyrighted when you make them available for
other computers to see (post on a web page or send an email, drafts or
password protected files excluded), even without an explicit copyright
notice.
Reworking someone else's copyrighted work it becomes a jointly
authored work if you include them as the author and should had their
authorization (something like a wiki you acknowledge subsequent
authors have the right to modify the document). You should include a
reference to the original.
Reworking someone else's work making it look like they were the sole
author is one form of a crime (similar to libel).
Copying (and or reworking) someone else's work looking like it is your
sole work is another form of a crime (similar to theft).
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:14 PM, McKown, John
<[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think another email forum for the z is needed. We have IBM-MAIN, IBMTCP-L, MVS-OE, CICS-L, ASSEMBLER-LIST, Linux-390 and likely even more. IANAL, but I wonder what the
copyright status is of the messages which are sent on a public email forum. I just don't see how anybody could assert a copyright claim on them (thinking about Lindy's response
about one person who considers his knowledge to be his "property"). So maintaining an independent archive is likely legal (if not, Google is in trouble). I also wonder
how much "editing" that one could get away with. What I was thinking of was perhaps a "raw archive" (perhaps indexed or threaded) and, from that, make an FAQ
"wiki" like site which took the information, organized it, but include hyperlinks back to the "raw archive" message(s) from which the information was
"cribbed". Might even have links to vendor documentation, if such is available. IBM very nicely has a good Web documentation site that I often reference in a reply so
that other's can evaluate things for themselves. All that I've been able to find for CA are PDF documents, and you need to log into their support site to get access to them. So I
doubt it would be legal to "webify" them so that you could give a hyperlink to a web page containing their information. Other vendors seem to be like CA. They don't seem
to want their documentation to be easily accessed via the Web in an "unfettered" manner. Oh, wait, Dovetail Technologies "man" pages for their zero-cost
software is easily gotten to via "unfettered access" and hyperlinks.
--
John McKown
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