On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:53:04PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: >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.
yeah. I'm backing out of this thread. but you can quote me freely. ;) // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE>< http://galis.org/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
