Re: FLASH: Copyright on list messages

[David Banigan]

>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.


This list is a public forum and therefore akin to a conversation in a 

crowded room. How exactly do you place copyright on something like 

that? I realise that the postings here can be easily attributed to 

the person who posted them but if it's really that proprietary, then 

why post here at all? I totally agree with getting what is owed you 

but keeping copyright on a posting to this (or any other publicly 

accessed) list is going a bit over the top. If you want to keep 

something confidential, send a private post with a note stating so. 

Cripes, it's not like this list is the .fla of postings.





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