From: Nick Makris (nick@mcn.org)
Date: 03/10/01-11:57:46 AM Z
Ok, so how about this situation? I save/categorize posts that I feel are
important/meaningful and I place them in corresponding folder in my email
program. Every once in a while someone posts a newbie request and I forward
the relative collection to that person - no charge of course. This has
occurred several times that I can think of.
I can't see much difference between that scenario and the Joe's scenario,
except that the method of conveyance is by snail mail and not email.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Portale" <jportale@gci-net.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Still on Copyright
> This has been an interesting thread. To address your question Nick,
another
> mail list owner wanted to place all the list emails on a CD and sell them
to
> the members for the cost of reproduction. No real profit. His legal
> beagles informed him that he needed to get the written permission of every
> person that posted to that mailing list. I will surmise that if the email
> is sent to a central and common repository, and your intent was to allow
> people to read the email, no problem. But once another takes control of
> that email, that is where things get sticky.
>
> Editorial comment. For the most part, I believe that the idea of copy
right
> protection is a good one. It does protect us from having our work taken
by
> others. The unfortunate question is in today's market, who is being
> protected? Are we really concerned with the rights of the other person's
> intellectual property or have we fallen victim to scam by lawyers trying
to
> turn a fast buck? When is enough, enough? These are extreme examples,
yet
> they are real. A Japanese firm copy righted the view from a California
Golf
> Course and sued three photographers that took pictures of that vista and
> published them in various commercial magazines. (I'm taking mountains and
> ocean view folks, not someone's house. Check me if I'm wrong, but doesn't
> the world belong to everyone?)
> A major publishing company found a distant relative of Herman Melville.
And
> in his name, sued in federal court for the past and future profits from
the
> work Moby Dick. There was an active search for relatives of people like,
> George Fennimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Stephan Crane and others.
Are
> these people really interested in defending the rights of these greats? I
> doubt it.
> So the question for debate is: You create an email, send it to a public
> list, such as this, should that email be treated as intellectual property
> and copy rightable? These are not private letters, they have been sent
into
> the world to be read by all. Comments?
>
>
> Joe Portale
> Tucson, AZ
>
> Fellin' a little preachy this morning.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Makris" <nick@mcn.org>
> To: "Alt Photo" <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 9:37 AM
> Subject: Still on Copyright
>
>
> > While we're on the subject, what about email messages found on the web?
> You
> > may or may not know that all the messages you send are not only
archived,
> > they are catagorized by several of the major search engines. Try
> searching
> > for your own name and see if the results don't include a message you
sent
> to
> > the list some time back.
> >
> > In any case, what is the consideration for copyright of these messages?
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
>
>
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