Re: Web Archive of Mailing List
Susan Ross - InterLegal Services (intrlegl@netzone.com)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199606101543.LAA02002@foyer.homecom.com>
From: Susan Ross - InterLegal Services <intrlegl@netzone.com>
Subject: Re: Web Archive of Mailing List
At 11:37 AM 6/9/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>> 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:
I have no problem with setting an example, as it were. But I have no IP
background, so please explain. How is this list "copyrighted"? I was not
under the impression that anything I posted was copyrighted. TIA
--Susan
Susan B. Ross, Esq.
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