> Unless you specifically indicate otherwise in your terms of service, the
> individual authors have the sole right to enforce their copyrights outside
> of your digest and any derivatives. (For example, you would probably have
> the right to enforce your compilation copyright. This would include
> restricting or controlling online archival.)
I'd recomend having your list server software add a copyright notice
in the mail header. Something like:
X-Legal: Contents copyright 1996 Albert E Newman.
The advantages of a copyright in the header are that:
* most people's mailers won't display it, so it won't interfere with
normal mail.
* It asserts your copyright notice, and would probably be worth
something in court if you decided to recoup damages. If XYZ
Internet Services generates advertising revenue from hits looking at
your archives, you have can claim a portion of those revenues.
* it clearly states ownership. As mentioned in another message, it
may be the each author on your list actually owns their own
messages, complicating the legal copyright status of your list
archives.
John
john@shelby.com, Shelby Group Ltd., http://www.shelby.com/
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