Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:40:10 +0100 From: Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Mailing Lists Legal Information Message-ID: <200703211240.17942.idiotbg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0703202310i502dfeedi31cc0d0a269b78d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <200703210405.53969.idiotbg@gmail.com> <d7195cff0703202310i502dfeedi31cc0d0a269b78d0@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] На 21.3.2007 07:10 написахте: > On 20/03/07, Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have a strange question that has been bothering mi mind in the past 2 > > hours and it`s about legal notices. Nowadays almost everything is digital > > and there is usually some copyright/copyleft or whaterver other legal > > notice assigned to almost every piece of bits/data (binary programs, > > source codes, images, docs, etc...). In this way of thoughts every e-mail > > should be considered some kind of intelectual property belonging to its > > author, shouldn't it? > > > > So I was thinking: should there be some kind of legal notice when > > subscribing to a list (respectively sending an e-mail to a list, not > > being subscribed to) that says that the author gives exclusive rights to > > The FreeBSD Foundation to store (archive) and redistribute (the way > > mailing lists work) e-mails being sent to the list? > > > > I have been thinking about this since some people use in their signatures > > texts like: > > "You should not copy this e-mail or use it for any other purposes or > > disclose its contents to any other person." > > > > Correct me if I am thinking complete nonsense, please! Mailing list have > > been live for a long time now, but I think nowadays they need > > subscriber's permission to redistribute, store and publish subscriber's > > mails on the web. > > > > Thank you for your time reading this :) > > > > -- > > This correspondence is strictly confidential. Any screening, filtering > > and/or production for the purpose of public or otherwise disclosure is > > forbidden without written permission by the author signed above. If you > > are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender and > > permanently delete any copies > > This sort of nonsense should probably be on chat@ > rather than doc@. > > It is as silly as: > > By reading this message you agree to pay me $4500 > cash within the next 10 days or relenquish title to your > house. Usually when you register somewhere, you have to click on a checkbox stating that you accept the terms and conditions for using your registration. What I mean is that we should have something like this for the mailing lists. For example: when you subscribe to a mailing list you click on a checkbox to allow redistribution and storage of your email. Sending your content to a mail list is like sending your content to youtube/youporn or whatever, the only difference is that usually the former is in the form of readable text. Nevertheless, both are published on the web. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/ Most of the things on the FreeBSD's web site have some copyright, excluding mail lists' archives. We should say something about that content too, don`t you thnik? Maybe I missed something somewhere, maybe I`m completely wrong, but that`s what I think, what about you? -- PGP KeyID: 0x3118168B Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint BB50 2983 0714 36DC D02E 158A E03D 56DA 3118 168B [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGARmh4D1W2jEYFosRAvglAJ49i1oqu+LJpj+Thyj7lXZF/qflDwCeL1xG EcknL+LiBJKc/+W8xAWrZhg= =DBWE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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