If I might blunder in here with a question...
Copyright. Everybody knows what it is, nobody knows what
it means.
I operate a mailing list which is a digital extension of
Canterbury Tales or your friendly neighborhood campfire -
we share stories of various forms. I have friends with
cute tales, but we also have published authors.
Now, our working premise is: Nerdnosh has the right to disseminate
the story and to archive it in the Attic, and the author has the
right to republish the piece as she sees fit, and further nobody
else has any right whatsoever. Recently there has developed a
discussion about copyright notices, which now go out in the header
of every digest (list only exists in digest form) being appended to
each individual contribution to the list.
Some see the need for the extra protection, or at least reassurance,
others see the community beginning to look commercial and impersonal.
I see it both ways.
I suppose the recent thread is galvanized by the fact we received
just yesterday a rotobot invitation to have all our works archived
and ourselves listed in another commercial web venture....so I wonder,
must we grant permission before our works are archived? I mean, what's
to prevent anyone from subscribing and then compiling everything that
goes out to the account? Should there be a specific warning against
this? Is it already understood?
But as Dragline says, there ain't nuthin' understood...
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