Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

Tomas Quintero tomasq at gmail.com
Sun May 8 02:33:22 PDT 2005


I'm sorry but doesn't this discussion belong on another list? Maybe
-chat? I dunno, surely it seems like it isn't related to any FreeBSD
technical related content. This is worse than Theo spouting off about
his next spam campaign.

Top Posting for a Reason.

On 5/8/05, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> 
> > No, Chris, we don't want to do that. If you put any kind of message
> > like that on the website you are then implying that the users have
> > copyrights in the first place on postings that they put on the mailing
> > list.
> 
> It's better than being successfully sued or prosecuted for infringement.
> 
> There can be little doubt that posts are indeed protected by copyright,
> as they fall within the scope of materials that are so protected. The
> only question is the degree to which this copyright can be successfully
> enforced.  However, successful enforcement of a law isn't necessary to
> make the law valid, especially in torts.
> 
> > Since what law there is supports the opposite assumption - that the
> > poster has no copyright on the post made in this forum - you are far
> > better legally by NOT putting such a disclaimer.
> 
> Which law supports that?
> 
> > It is kind of like if you walk into a restaurant and pick up a fork
> > and stab yourself, then sue the restaurant claiming that they are
> > negligent in not warning you that their forks are sharp. Today you
> > don't see warning labels on forks because the law presumes that a fork
> > is supposed to be sharp, and it presumes that anyone of legal age to
> > enter a restaurant would know this.
> 
> What is the minimum legal age to enter a restaurant?
> 
> > If restaurants all started slapping warning labels on their forks then
> > they would create a presumption that a normal fork is dull, and that
> > the sharp kind is unexpected.
> 
> Yes, but then they couldn't be sued successfully any more.
> 
> --
> Anthony
> 
> 
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