> >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).
There is no such thing as an impossible situation. Be creative!
> The way I figure it is.... if you claim copyright on something, you allow
> UNSOLICITED contact to negotiate for use.
This is true. Sending me an unsolicited, _personal_ message is certainly
not spamming. It's a personal message if the person who sends it either
knows me in some manner, or the sender has personally looked at my
content and was impressed by it, or the sender has looked at my website
and read what I say about copyright there.
But if my work is of so little value to a company that they don't bother
to pay a live human being for looking at my content and sending me a
personal message, then I don't want any unsolicited mail from them.
Whenever they're setting up an email robot to send unsolicited email,
they're spamming in the sense of sending UBE, and they deserve to be
put out of business.
May blessings from the eternal God surprise and overtake you!
Norbert.
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