At Sunday 4/18/99 20:07, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:33:08AM -0400, Tom Neff wrote:
>> ISSUE #1 - PUBLIC LIST DIRECTORIES
>> ==================================
>> Topica and Liszt claim (and most list admins would agree) that they're
>> entitled to compile directories of publicly accessible mailing lists,
>> without being considered rude or evil. If in the course of doing this they
>> "harvest" previous directories published others, thereby falling afoul of
>> someone's compilation copyright and getting the lawyers interested, that's
>> their problem, but it's no skin off the nose of your average list manager.
>
>Correct. Topica/liszt/whoever also must realize that if *they* want
>to make this the cornerstone of their business, it is they who bear
>the burden of figuring out how to do it without spamming listowners,
>without violating copyrights, without providing unwanted "features"
>that some of us consider bugs (e.g. web-based subscription forms)
>and so on.
Ok, you've JUST set up an impossible situation. They can't contact the
copyright holder (spa violation), and they can't use anything without
asking (copyright violation).
The way I figure it is.... if you claim copyright on something, you allow
UNSOLICITED contact to negotiate for use.
Victor A. Wagner, Jr.
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