My understanding of copyright law (limited) was that if one expects
something to be protected by copyright, then one has to inform
potential viewers/readers/listeners. Otherwise they may not know to
protect your content. Thus without a (c) attached, then one could not
come back and claim
of crap going on with SCO and Linux, follow Richard's advice.
Best regards,
Bill
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From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: 2006-03-14 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Wiki -- who owns the content?
My
On 3/14/06, Bill Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Kevin,
You're pretty close. As Richard notes, Copyright and protection under the
Copyright law are two separate, but obviously related, things...
Excellent writeup. Thanks
Kevin
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Ownership of postings, like an open source applicaion itself
automatically belongs to the author(s) - UNLESS the terms of usage on
the Wiki state that all postings become property of the Wiki maintainer.
Perhaps a terms of use statement should be created for that Wiki.
The open source license
Hate to bring a legal matter to light, but what is the legal standing of
the user-contributed wiki entries? That is, does the contributor have
perpetual full rights or does the user-contributed content belong to the
organization? Is the content/database jointly owned in full or owned by
only
That page #2137 is mine, and you better keep your hands off it!
(Obviously I am just kidding).
I think it would be hard to argue that something posted on the
internet is protected unless each page posts a copyright on it.
Perhaps someone, such as yourself, wants to copy the content of the
wikki
Actually, I'm more concerned to what happens to the content if WorldVistA
splits up, goes away, management change, etc..
At 02:41 PM 3/9/2006, Kevin wrote:
That page #2137 is mine, and you better keep your hands off it!
(Obviously I am just kidding).
I think it would be hard to argue that
I would not loose any sleep over that. You are talking about a group of
volunteers who have kept at it through thick and mostly, very, very, thin, so
I don't think the content will disappear. It may be a bit slow in getting
fixed, or appear in a different format, but it won't disappear.
On
In a nutshell, the content just like the software is open
sourcewhich means there are no IP issues standing in the way of the
software or content outliving the organizations etc. that have had a
hand in developing or making it available for the benefit of others.
Cheers,
Joseph
Dan
If WorldVistA splits up, goes away, management changes, people get sick,
whatever, there are always the Google archive (http://google.com) and
the wayback machine (http://archive.org). Other search engines may also
have their stashed copies of web pages.
Now, if Earth were to get hit by an
That really doesn't resolve the ownership issue though, does it?
At 04:39 PM 3/9/2006, Bhaskar wrote:
If WorldVistA splits up, goes away, management changes, people get sick,
whatever, there are always the Google archive (http://google.com) and
the wayback machine (http://archive.org). Other
No, it doesn't. But I was only speaking to the concern voiced in your
post that I replied to.
-- Bhaskar
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:07 -0600, Dan wrote:
That really doesn't resolve the ownership issue though, does it?
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