begin quoting m ike as of Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:40:00PM -0700: > Has anyone come across discussions of copyright and fair-use issues > regarding posts to mailing lists? I would like to read and have not > been able to locate any discussions or case histories.
IANAL. Surely a post to a list (or a newsgroup) is done with the intent of having that message widely spread to a large number of people, often via a store-and-forward network. Preserving, quoting, forwarding, replying, discussing, etc. are all implicitly granted "copy-rights" to the work, because that's what is going to happen when you post. Thus, the rule of a 'reasonable man' would say that when you do something that will result in your work being copied in these sorts of ways, you cannot object to your work being copied in these sorts of ways. People who try to claim that copyright lets them delete information from an archive should have said works removed from their possession and put into the public domain (along with other punitive measures commonly applied when copyright is abused). After all, the purpose of copyright is to publish a work so that when the copyright expires, the work and enter the public domain for everyone to benefit; using copyright to *delete* a (legally acquired) work violates the fundamental principle of copyright. IMNSHO, of course. -Stewart "Check fidonet and usenet archives for such discussions" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
