Subject: Re: [PRODIG] Prodig Privacy > > On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 12:01 AM, Paul David Drabble wrote:
> > I think that you will find the writer of the Email/news group post > > is the > > owner of the copyright unless they have assigned that right In > > Writing to > > third party check out copyright designs and patents act 1988 > > http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_5.htm#mdiv87 Then Francis Newman wrote: > >> Check the Prodig Guidelines under which we all post. > > "USAGE RIGHTS > Participants who post to this list grant rights to the list owner to > include their posts in a searchable archive and grant permission to use > the posts solely as part of a complete list archive > in other mediums." > > How legal - I know not - but it's there in writing - and we list mums > refer each and every new subscriber (and many others!) to the > guidelines on a regular basis. So there's no excuse for not knowing the > conditions under which you post. Quite right too!! but this is a usage right granted to prodig under their T&C of joining the group, for prodig to .............. "use the posts solely as part of a complete list archive in other mediums." any use other than this would be a breach of copyright. So to go back to the original posters concern.................. > I recently did a google search for my name and top of the list was a > link to something stripped from the PRODIG archive. > > My worry is that the posts appear out of context and in a totally > public domain. Which I assumed meant a post had been lifted from the prodig archive and included as part of a third party's site. In that case it would be a breach of the original poster copyright. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
