On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > > > > > > I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives > > > anyone the right to take someone else's mailing list post and include > > > that in a Wiki? > > > > > Thinks there were posted to public mailing lists are freely > > copied and distributed. It's a scary thought; I may have posted > > things in 10 or 12 years ago that might cause me problems today, > > but I was pretty aware that I was posting to the whole world.
There's a difference between public archiving and copying. > It's not that simple. Dealing with international contributors it's even worse. > Under US law (the only one I'm familiar with), the author of a mailing list > post or any other written work _automatically holds copyright_ to that > post (although not to the ideas contained therein, but to that particular > description of the ideas). (Of course, if the ideas are original to the > author, > it's good form to acknowledge that regardless of whether the exact words > are used). I believe this is true for all countries that are signatory to the Berne convention (which is pretty much all countries [1]). The US in fact was one of the later ones to get into it, before which you had to explicitly copyright things if you wanted copyright. -Deepayan [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Berne_Convention.png ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
