copyright notice

[john wells]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> John's simple-minded dismissals notwithstanding, as in the case of anything
> we create and publish, each of us do own copyright to our Internet
> postings. As in the real world, the ability to defend against copyright or
> other intellectual property infringement increases proportionally to the
> effort expended in protecting our creations -- in the case of Internet
> postings, affixing a copyright notice constitutes such an effort. It's
> generally not necessary, however, because as far as I know, most authors
> and publishers take the time to get permission to quote before
> appropriating such intellectual property for publication. As has become
> obvious here, Jules and IAM didn't do that.
> 
> -Doug
> 
> At 2:17 PM 7/9/97, john wells wrote:
> >Bullshit. That post isn't worth the paper it isn't printed on. Geez.
> >I'm surprised jester is so uneasy about being quoted. It don't matter
> >what they say about you just as long as they spell your name right.
> >john
> 
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IF you were a real journalist Doug, you'd know about "fair use" and the
fact that a comment was posted on a public list would likely make it
available for quoting by anyone. Repeated quotes by the same person,
might require asking permission. For example, if someone wrote a book
using primarily one or two person's quotes almost exclusively, the
author might have to ask permission. But when 500 people post on a
public list, well, to use all of them would, in effect not require the
permission of any of them.

john