[Upd-discuss] copyright status of posts to this list

[Michael Hart]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> What is the copyright status of posts to this list? Is one allowed to 
> reproduce text from posts either in part or in full without permission from 
> the poster? Is upd-discuss in the public domain?
>
> If one cannot go for a comprehensive waiver (e.g. by requiring people to 
> agree to it when they sign up to the list) how should one go about 
> public-domaining or CCing one's own posts? Would the following suffice:
>
> a) This post is hereby dedicated to the public domain
>
> b) Licensed under a CC Attribution License (v2.0)
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
>
> Does the fact that emails include previous emails from other - and often the 
> entire email - cause problems?


While I have spent my entire career posting public domain works
to the Internet, I certainly don't want EVERYTHING I say on the
Net to be public domain, or to appear with a license.

If I WERE going to use a license, I would use Project Gutenberg's
license, not the Creative Commons', since the Project Gutenberg
license has many more years of precedents leading to this version.

However, as far as this specific case goes, I think it is just fine
to copy anyone's emails into a reply you are making back to the list
it first appeared on.  Simple permission should suffice to forward
to others, individuals or lists.


Thanks!!!


Nice To Hear From You!


Michael


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