Re: Web Archive of Mailing List
Daniel M. Press (73173.1477@compuserve.com)
Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:37:54 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:37:54 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199606091537.LAA27670@foyer.homecom.com>
From: "Daniel M. Press" <73173.1477@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Web Archive of Mailing List
>> But when you send a message to a list that is freely open to the public, then
you have sent a message into a forum that is most certainly public. And
public messages are not entitled to any sort of expectation of privacy if
you freely put the message into the public forum.<<
I have no objection to an archive and I don't disagree about expectations of
privacy. But the issue is one of copyright. You can't make a copy without
consent of the copyright owner (author), and the submitter's consent could not
be reasonably construed to extend beyond posting to the list itself. There is
at this time no consent to posting to the web or even, possibly, to any form of
permanent storage. However, if notice were sent to all participants and
included in the initial list details so that everyone knew that the list was
archived and was able to stop submitting to the list, it would be OK. But
archiving at this time violates copyright law.
Not that anyone is going to do anything about it, but as lawyers (at least some
of us), we should set the example.
Dan
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