On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 19:56, Mike Mueller wrote: > That's courteous to ask. But now you have me thinking. I don't think you > need to ask for permission to quote what is on the web. What was written was > committed to the public. You're probably free to take anything out there as > long as you attribute your sources. I don't know if TriLUG owns/claims > copyrights the list content does it...or can it?
Actually, Mike, emails and mailing list postings are owned by their authors, and implicitly copyrighted as such. Obviously people here know that their postings are going to a public archive. But that doesn't change who wrote and owns the email. Stan is correct to ask permission to use these authors' writings. Otherwise all he really could do legally is link to the mailing list archives, or use small quotes that are allowed per the "fair use" doctrine. These quotes must of course be attributed accordingly; any other use would be plagiarism. IANAL, but this is how I understand it. (As an employee of an academic institution, these are things I have to deal with fairly regularly.) Regards, Jeremy Portzer -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
