On Wed, 14 May 2014 10:08:57 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> With the current system, all of us here are technically violating
>> copyright every time we reply to an email and quote more than a small
>> percentage of it.
>
> Oh wow... so when someone quotes heaps of text without trimming, and
> adding blank lines, we can complain that it's a copyright violation -
> reproducing our work with unauthorized modifications and without
> permission...
>
> I never thought of it like that.
>
> ChrisA
I think I could make a very strong case that anything sent to a public
forum with the intention of being broadcast has been placed into the
public domain by this action.
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