At 8:44 AM 9/7/95, Marianne Brosseau wrote:
>> The LONG STANDING tradition of the Internet is that unless you go to
>> extraordinary means to insure otherwise ANYTHING posted to ANY list is in
>> the PUBLIC DOMAIN
>
>        Those who believe this *fallacy* are well advised to check:
> * Brad Templeton Home Page * Copyright Myths
 
Oops.  I clearly went overboard by not including the adjective ORIGINAL.
Clearly if one posts SOMEONE ELSE's copyright material to a list it's a
violation.  Beyond that, in the absence of a clear statement to the
contrary, I *assume* that what I say may be repeated, with or without
attribution, and I rather doubt I'd have much luck trying to claim
otherwise.
 
I'll take a look at the web sites when I next have an opportunity.
However, web sites are not accessible to everyone, and the sheer volume of
data makes it unlikely that anyone is going to have the capacity to keep up
with it all.  Hence, as I indicated before, if the original questioner
REALLY wants to raise the issue with publishers, then an attorney, not
LSTOWN-L is the place to ask.
 
On Thu, 7 Sep 1995 17:39:49 EST, Bob Kosovsky wrote:
>I'm fairly sure that an
>email message is a copyrightable work.  Under the current law, then, even if
>there is no copyright symbol or mention of "copyright by..." every email
>posting is a copyrighted work.  Like this one.
 
Is there ANY case law on the proposition that an email message containing
NO mention of copyright IS copyrighted?  If I quote only a portion of the
whole, does fair use apply?  I suppose one of these days someone with deep
pockets and a LOT of curiosity will seek to sort it out.
 
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