copywritten material

Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 01:43:32 -0300 (ADT)
From: Paul A Falvo <pfalvo@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: Sustainable Maritimes <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Paul the Legal Grouch here ...

I've recently learned that there may be a legal problem with posting of
copyright material to mailing lists such as sust-mar, especially since the
material is archived on the www. 

Apparently legal liability could accrue to not only the poster, but the
ISP and the listowner ... *ulp* !

So ... unless you want to end up sharing a jail cell with me and a bunch
of computer geeks, i'm gonna ask folks to kindly refrain from posting
anything that is copyright someone else to sust-mar unless you have the
copyright holder's permission.

The biggest source of this on sust-mar appears to be material that is
available on the www anyway (ie newspaper articles) ... so why not just
include the URL to the site?

thanks
~paul :)
 


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Communications Chair, Sierra Club, Eastern Canada Chapter
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