On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:42 PM, LuKreme wrote: > >> On 10-Mar-2011, at 20:38, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> Reply-To: is author domain. >> >> And it is merely opinion that the list is not to be considered the author. >> The list is certainly the author of the headers. > > No no no no, I am a published author and in that course have done a lot of > research on copyright law. I am absolutely the author of the body of the > email and retain full copyright upon publishing. I grant a limited right to > the list serve to redistribute that copyrighted righted material to list > members and for archiving, etc as the list agreement stipulates. It is a > clearly understood copyright infringement for ANYONE to redistribute or copy > or publish anyone's emails outside of that list serve context. I cannot > forward YOUR emails to my mom, for example, without being in violation of > YOUR copyright. Registration of copyright is not required. You own what you > right, it is instant intellectual property. > > *the author* is a very specific person, it has specific meaning, no doubt > that is why they used that terminology, rather than "the sender" or some > other such wording. > >> The message, as delivered, was written by the list software and includes >> portions (but not all) of the message the original sender sent to the list. > > No, that is incorrect understanding. The author created, and initiated merely > redistribution of that copyrighted material through the list serve. The list > serve did not write the message at all.
No, it is not an incorrect understanding. This is not a legal definition of "author". This is "author" in terms of the email system. The RFC is not talking about the copyright holding author. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
