Fwd: question about mailing lists license ,

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:42 +0330, a dehqan wrote:
> See our lawyer say that owner of Book should give permission .
> But Here in Iran some writers Give their book copyrights to a
> publisher .
> Now this question , Does this mailing list get mails copyrights or
> not ? in other word , Do person give their mails copyrights to mailing
> list by registering in mailing list and using it ?

No. Your messages remain yours. You have given implicit permission to
mailing list users, corporate and private, to use the information in
your messages, and to copy them for the purposes of the mailing list
itself, but no more.

But: You will find it nearly impossible to either detect or enforce a
copyright violation of material published in a mailing list. Especially
a global mailing list, where copies of your words appear in dozens of
different jurisdictions.

I would strongly suggest that if you have material that you do not want
used, don't put it in a mailing list.

Regards, K.

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