On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:57:58 -0400 Bob McCown wrote:
> Just another datapoint, but it applies. Recently, a bunch of thread
> responses on Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) were taken, and were going to be
> put into a book. There was such a hew and cry from the people that posted,
> they decided NOT to publish the book, but make it in electronic format.
And I bet that, say, Salon.com and any of their (paid) columnists
might be rather put out if I replicated one of their web articles on
my site or extracted the articles and posted them regularly to a
mailing list sans Salon.com formating and advertising using the
justification that, well, anyone could view it on their website, point
to it with a URL, and heck, *even have it emailed to anyone* with a
click from their site. They MUST be putting it in the public domain.
Yeah, right.
I always welcome requests to repost my posts to other email lists, and
almost always say yes. I also advise those who ask me if they can
repost things from my lists to get permission from the poster. I
consider it the most basic of netiquette irrespective of the copyright
issues.
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Michelle Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] East Palo Alto, CA
