In message <01bd08af$f0f79ba0$a587410c@compaq>, you wrote:
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>>My (non-legal) opinion is that by posting to the list, a subscriber
>>is indicating their consent with the list's rules (which may include
>>a policy on public archives), therefore forfeiting some of their
>>regular copyright rights.
>>
>>I would be very interested to hear of any legal precedents in this
>>area.
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>I suspect that there are precedents. It is not much different from
>writing a
>'letter to the editor' to a publication which claims somewhere in
>the fine print that 'all letters submitted become property of
>xxx Corporation' or similar language...........
We amateurs can argue the law all we want, but what the law says or does
does not say makes little different _until_ you get to court... and it
can be mighty expensive just getting there.
I have for some time now included the following header into all of my
outgoing mail and news postings:
X-Copyright: (c) 1997 Ronald F. Guilmette; All rights reserved.
The question of whether or not this is binding is an interesting one. To
date however I have never seen it as being _sufficiently_ interesting to
try to persue the answer into a courtroom, nor have I ever even suggested
to anyone that I might do so in any particular case where one of my messages
was quoted, retransmitted, or rebroadcast.
However if anyone is interested in seeing how far my interest can be piqued
in this facinating legal question, just try quoting me out of context or
twisting my words to make it appear that I have said something that I never
intended. Under those circumstances, I may one day decide to suggest to
the person doing the mis-quoting of me that what they have done may perhaps
be actionable under the copyright laws.
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