Re: Web Archive of Mailing List
Daniel M. Press (73173.1477@compuserve.com)
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199606130045.UAA19262@foyer.homecom.com>
From: "Daniel M. Press" <73173.1477@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Web Archive of Mailing List
Peter Krakaur wrote:
>>Not sure I agree with you on the notion that every e-mail messsage to this
(or any other list) has copyright protections. If you think there are
protections in certain messages, perhaps you might want to look at SIFT,
The Legal Domain Network, or other searchable archives of e-mail and usenet
that is available on the Web. Some pretty big players are out there
"violating" "copyrights" every day.<<
Correct. They are violating copyrights every day. There is nothing about the
'net that excludes it from copyright protection. However, without actual
damages or pre-infringement registration, the likelihood of an infringement suit
is minimal. There is something to do with "internet culture" where people think
that copyright does not exist or is not enforceable or there is some god-given
right to infringe. This is not the case, and as commercial traffic on the net
increases, the likelihood of such suits increases.
>>If one wanted to protect a "copyright" in an e-mail message to a list
service, one might want to put a copyright notice in the message to alert
the moderator and others of the claim. Of course, if I were the list
owner, it is likely I'd screen that message out to make it clear that the
participants had no claim to the list ot its archives.>>
A copyright notice has almost no legal significance any longer. It's virtually
a waste of ink (or of disk space).
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