At 11:18 PM -0400 5/10/99, murr rhame wrote:
> A "legal" notice sent by email isn't worth the paper it's written on.
> I would remove the copyrighted material in question, notify the author
> that you have done so and wait for a proper summons.
well, I wouldn't wait for a proper summons. I'd assume it was the end
of it. No sense getting upset over nothing.
>> Do mailing list archives have any protection against being held
>> liable for copyright infringement?
> I'm not aware of any special protection for mailing list archives.
There is none. You don't have to cause the infringement to be
responsible for it. Ignorance is some excuse in a case like this --
but once you're warned about the infringment, you can't claim
ignorance any more. And if someone pulls something out of ESPNet and
posts it to a list, stripping all of the copyright material, and
someone else takes it off that list and posts it to your list, it's
STILL a copyright infringment. And once ESPNet comes and points this
out and shows you the source, you have to deal with it. Everyone in
the chain is responsible for the infringement at some point in time.
To collect damages, they'd have to prove what the damages you caused
to them was. For something like this, I wish them luck -- but it'd
still be a painful situation to be in. Generally, what most copyright
holders want is cooperation, and that's easy and cheap.
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