On Monday 07 September 2009 10:24 PM, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal wrote: > And I would rather suggest we make a personal rule to not to reply to > any such message (that enforces a licence).
By default, all that you write is copyrighted. If one actually sits down to analyse what that means on mailing lists, where reproduction (of the text) is rampant, it leads to chaos (because the notion of 'implied consent'/'implied licence' has not been used in copyright cases, afaik). Thus while "enforcing a licence" (such as the GNU GPL / a CC licence) might actually lead to greater freedom than producing it without a licence. But, as noted above, e-mails and mailing lists have not proven themselves conducive to copyright infringement cases. Finally, 'public domain' is not really a licence, and as far as I'm aware, it is difficult to achieve in India due to s.21 of the Copyright Act. -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
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