John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Tue Nov 3 23:31:01 GMT 2020
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 5:44 PM marc <marcx2 at welz.org.za> wrote:
So I was under the impression that a creative work
is covered by copyright as soon as it is fixed in
a tangible medium... no special "copyright" word
required. Statues and paintings don't have
a (c) sign on them, yet they are still covered.
That's quite true. But the advantage of a notice is that a licenseviolator can't claim "I didn't know". This is useful not only if you needto go to court, but just to get them to take down their copy of yourcontent. This often comes up when someone posts a copy with your nameremoved, which of course CC-BY(-SA) does not allow. If there is a notice,you can send them an email saying very politely that they are willfulinfringers of your copyright and may be liable for up to US$150,000 foreach illegally copied work. They generally take it down fast.
The corporate world likes to hold on to all
its rights ("all rights reserved")
By the way, that phrase has no legal meaning and can be completelyignored. It is neither a license nor a copyright notice.
we don't have to - things like BSD, GPL and
CC-* are people saying that they are happy
to contribute to something shared, on certain terms.
And if these statements are embedded in .gmi files,
tools can be built which parse this.
+1, absolutely
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.orgPeople go through the bother of Christmas because Christmas helps themto understand why they go through the bother of living out their livesthe rest of the year. For one brief instant, we see human society as itshould and could be, a world in which business has become the exchangingof presents and in which nothing is important except the happiness andwell-being of the ultimate consumer. --Northrop Frye (1948)-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201103/715c6d32/attachment.htm>