Message-Id: <3.0.16.19810628214520.2fc7ec8e@tellus.swip.net> X-Sender: mt58779 AT tellus DOT swip DOT net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (16) To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Bernie Subject: Re: New DR-DOS Club and eGroup Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:09:35 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id NAA15147 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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, >thatīs 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