On 2014-05-14, alister <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2014 10:08:57 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> With the current system, all of us here are technically violating >>> copyright every time we reply to an email and quote more than a small >>> percentage of it. >> >> Oh wow... so when someone quotes heaps of text without trimming, and >> adding blank lines, we can complain that it's a copyright violation - >> reproducing our work with unauthorized modifications and without >> permission... >> >> I never thought of it like that.
> I think I could make a very strong case that anything sent to a public > forum with the intention of being broadcast has been placed into the > public domain by this action. At least in the US, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as "placing a work into the public domain". The copyright holder can transfer ownershipt to soembody else, but there is no "public domain" to which ownership can be trasferred. IIRC, there is a way under Germain copyright law to release certain rights. The mere act of widely widely distributing something does not in any way relinquish copyrights. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Am I elected yet? at gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list