On Saturday 05 Sep 2009, Vickram Crishna wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > > I make the CD and send it to him, charging him Rs 25 > > for the media and transfer costs. By doing this I'm violating the > > licence of the mail and am technically liable to be prosecuted for > > copyright violation. > > This is a very reasonable and likely scenario. However, I contest > your suggestion that the acts of creating and distributing CDs are > gains from the content of the email. You would have incurred those > costs, and received the compensation for it, whether or not the > impugned mail was included.
Assuming that the recipient specifically wanted to pay Rs 25 for getting these list archives, your assumption is incorrect. In any case, the idea of each individual message to a mailing list having its own licence is ridiculous bordering on insane. There are combinations of licences that make it impossible for me to even back up my mail directory, since the same archive may contain mails under two or more incompatible licences. There is a generic licence that applies to all mails sent to the list, and if you don't agree with that, well, the door is that-a-way. IAC no licence is needed to establish copyright, and plagiarism can be fought regardless of whether you explicitly licensed your original mail or not. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
