Dick Seabrook writes:
> Perhaps we need a "graffiti law" -- that anything written in a public place
> or on
> someone else's property becomes the property of the public, or owner
> respectively.
> Otherwise what right do owners have to clean graffiti off their buildings?
You are confusing
Yes, ... international copyright lawyer required for even such a simple
thing. In many cases it may be better to put nothing - as the GNU lists do
- and let national law deal with problems and interpretation. Whatever you
put, some jurisdiction somewhere will find it to be in error, and that just
Perhaps we need a "graffiti law" -- that anything written in a public place
or on
someone else's property becomes the property of the public, or owner
respectively.
Otherwise what right do owners have to clean graffiti off their buildings?
Dick S.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 4:06 AM Andrew Bernard
though I generally loathe such usage terms, wouldn't some clause in the
list's ToS to the effect that use of the list grants some nonexclusive but
unrestricted right to copy/use that material alleviate these concerns?
Those kinds of clauses are part of every online email service, for example
You need an international copyright lawyer. This is a fraught topic.
On list email, I recently set up a big sophisticated mail server to support
GNU Mailman 3 mailing lists, and moved an archive from a previous list with
100,000 posts across. Extensive discussion with my colleagues in that
