Re: FLASH: Copyright on list messages

[List Owner]

Hi Peter,


This is my understanding of the copyright issues with regard to mailing lists:


Folks who post retain the copyright to their postings however by 

participating in the list, which is essentially a public forum they can be 

quoted or excerpted in the same way you might quote a magazine article. In 

terms of archiving postings, etc. The safest solution for any compilation 

of postings is to host them at the same place the list lives as they will 

essentially be from the same publishing source.


I think it really depends on whether the members of the list perceive it's 

a useful service and whether or not they mind their postings being used. If 

you want to be 100% safe, you'll need to get permission from folks to post 

their stuff, though.


Hope this helps...for what it's worth, I'd be happy to host any 

compilations or FAQs for the list on the main site, as some of you may 

already know, I'm not a Flash expert and take care of a number of lists 

(see http://www.chinwag.com) so I'm not in a position to compile FAQs, etc. 

myself.


Toodle Pip


Sam


At 09:45 24/11/99 +0100, you wrote:

>Fellow Flashers

>

>I am planning on putting on-line a collection of hints, tips and other

>advice from this excellent list.

>

>In order to be on the safe side:

>

>Are the contents of the flash-list responses copyrighted or not....


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