At 9:57 AM -0500 8/26/00, Amy Stinson wrote:
>Who owns the posted content of a list?
At a 10,000 foot level, I think there's more or less general
consensus that the original poster owns copyright of their message,
but the list owner can assert a copyright on the compilation of
postings that make up the list. That would mean the poster has say
how any individual message can be re-used (keeping in mind the tenets
of fair use, of course), while the list owner has the say in how the
list content in aggregate is used.
Now, what this can mean in terms of who can do what to which and who
has to giver permission for this or that, it gets complicated fast.
If there's any question about what is or isn't acceptable or people
are getting snarly at each other over stuff, it's really a good idea
to spell out what the list policies are up front in the list
documentation and not wait until the fight starts to try to hash it
out. Of course, I'm guessing that since this has popped up on
list-managers, chances are it's too late for that...
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