> "10 Big Myths about copyright explained" over on:
> states that posts are copyrighted with or without an explicit
> copyright notice. It also states that the poster does not place her
> or his post in the Public Domain simply by the act of posting. What
> it doesn't state is whether simple archiving constitutes an abuse of
> copyright.
Archiving in and of itself does not constitute abuse of copyright, as
I understand it. Archiving and retransmitting, on the other hand,
does.
I suppose I could make an argument either way, but an electronic
archive basically retransmits the article on demand, right? This
would be the argument in favor of the open electronic archive being a
copyright abuse.
Disclaimer-- I'm not a lawyer, and wouldn't want to be. Thinking
about these things makes my head hurt.
-- John S. Novak, III jsn@cegt201.bradley.edu http://cegt201.bradley.edu/~jsn/index.html The Humblest Man on the Net
[
Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive |
Search Mail Archive |
Authors |
Usenet
]
[
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997
]
© Copyright The Landfield Group, 1997
All rights reserved