At 07:42 AM 7/12/05 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: >At 07:28 AM 7/12/2005, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >This is not about my email address. This is about my content. I did not > >expect a public archive, or else I'd be posting to the web forum. The > >extent of the 'contract' for posting is on the list info site, and nowhere > >is a public presentation of our postings suggested. > >Again, I really think this is splitting hairs. Since absolutely >anyone in the world can subscribe and then read the entire list >archives, our postings are already public, for all intents and purposes. > >I'm not arguing in favor of these archive sites (though I do like the >search capabilities), I'm just saying that it doesn't matter to me >because it doesn't expose anything that wasn't already exposed. If >you disagree with this assessment, I'd be interested in hearing why.
Because I reserve the right to my creative work. That's the very basis for copyright protection, and the most elemental understanding of the ownership of my creative work. That I make something available at no charge does not mean that anyone else may then redistribute it. From websites to freeware, you'll see re-distribution without permission or conditions explicitly prohibited (a helpful but unnecessary notice). Intellectual property protection is not merely for the benefit of corporations. It subsists in my postings and in your postings and in everyone else's postings as well as in Finale's software -- or I could happily be posting Finale on my website. The exchange of money doesn't make MakeMusic's copyright somehow more important than yours or mine. The terms of my postings on this list are that it is, as it says on the subscription page, a private list. At no point did I hand over rights or give permission for third-party distribution of my writing, however inconsequential it may be -- not to opensubscriber.com or archivum.info or mail-archive.com, not to the list owner, and not through the list subscription contract itself. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
