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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT mailing list post ownership
From: Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:49:45 -0400
References: <20020430105515.75672.qmail@web10501.mail.yahoo.com>

Javier:

Check the terms to which you agreed when signing up with Yahoo.  I think
that you'll find that you gave up all of your copyrights for anything
uploaded to them.

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Jim - http://www.hemenway.com



Javier Perez wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone
> I've been thinking
> When messages are posted on mailing lists, who owns
> them? Is there any chance that the list provider can
> copyright them? I'm not worried about the LUG since
> it's a volunteer community service but frankly those
> other commercial list providers like Yahoo or Topica
> certainly wouldn't be above concealing archives from
> anyone who doesn't want to pay for a future "enhanced
> service". This is more than a trivial issue as photo
> and other specialist mailing lists are now considered
> valuable sources of info for shoppers wanting opinions
> on particular items as well as market analysts. As far
> as I know I've never granted ownership of my posts on
> those lists to anyone (not that they are worth that
> much!) and assume they are in the public domain but
> I'm not sure. Does anyone know how this works? A
> lawyer perhaps!
> Javier
> 
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