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From:	Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject:	Re: New DR-DOS Club and eGroup
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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:09:35 +0200
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Matthias wrote:
>My point was that - unless declared otherwise - when you
>make a substantive contribution somewhere, this gets copy-
>righted automatically. There is nothing special about it,
>that´s just common international and local copyright law.
(snip)
>Posting in Yahoo groups, one gives up many of his rights,

If you are refering to the loss of copyright on your material I'll quote
from "CyberLaw the law of the Internet" by Jonathan Rosenoer:

"Some online services claim a compilation copyright in the material posted
bt their subscribers. The copyright Act [in the US] defines a 'compilation' as
a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or
of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the
resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.
It remains to be seen wheter an online service may be able to show
sufficient selection, coordination or arrangement to support the claimed
copyright. In many cases, subscriber postings are simply responses to
postings by other subscribers, with no participation by the online service
whatsoever."

So this isn't as clear as you (and Yahoo!) may think, however, you as an
indivudal has little chance to actually perform a good battle against
Yahoo! and similar service providers.
//Bernie

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