David wrote:
> Has it slipped people's minds that TIPS is fully, publicly archived?
> See http://www.mail-archive.com/tips@fre.fsu.umd.edu
Not at all--but being publicly _archived_ isn't the same as being in the
public domain.
For example, if I write an article for a journal, that journal will be both
privately archived on their members only web site and publicly archived in
libraries throughout the world. Yet that article will _not_ be placed in the
public domain, and it would be copyright infringement were someone to
reprint and distribute that article w/o permission. While there are academic
fair-use exceptions to this, for the most part the simple fact that
something is publicly archived does _not_ mean that it can be freely used.
Rick
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Rick Adams
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Department of Social Sciences
Jackson Community College
Jackson, Michigan
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