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- From: swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu
- Subject: Re: quality of GNU stuff vs. Sun OS stuff
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.082826.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
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- Organization: Auburn University, AL
- References: <009647B262C61D60.22200358@giant.IntraNet.com> <f5#23s-@rpi.edu> <PREECE.92Dec3171718@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:28:26 GMT
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- In article <PREECE.92Dec3171718@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>, preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) writes:
- > In article <f5#23s-@rpi.edu> night@acm.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes:
- > | Since the US now is a party to the Berne agreement, any document is
- > | implicitly copyrighted by the author, unless otherwise stated, rather
- > | than being implicitly public domain unless a copyright accompanies it
- > | (which is the way it used to be in the US). Incidentally, you own the
- > | copy of the document you have, but what exactly that means for email
- > | is pretty fuzzy.
- > ---
- > Even before we became a party to the Berne convention the question of
- > ownership of letters was well resolved. The author owns the right to
- > reproduce them, NOT the recipient (who only owns her own copy). This
- > has been upheld by quite a few court decisions.
- >
- > Don't quote unpublished letters without the author's permission; don't
- > quote published letters without the copyright holder's permission.
-
- Every once in a while, I'll post a question to some group (comp.lang.c,
- rec.travel, whatever). I'll sometimes get a request from someone via email,
- asking for a copy of all of the answers I received to my original question.
- In the past, I thought nothing of putting all of the replies I received in a
- file and mailing it out. My reasoning has been, I am a total stranger to
- most, if not all, of the people who helped me and I thought that since they
- didn't mind helping me, they wouldn't mind helping some other total
- stranger.
-
- Here is an example: Last year I attended the SUG conference in San Jose. A
- few months before the conference, I posted a request to rec.travel, asking
- for info on San Jose and San Fransisco. I received around 25 replies to my
- question. A few weeks later, a few people asked me to send them a copy of
- all of the replies I received. I thought there was no problem with this and
- did so. Now, am I to understand that this was an illegal/wrong/rude thing to
- do??
-
- --
- David Swanger, Auburn University, Alabama, swanger@accs.duc.auburn.edu
-