Question: Mailing Lists Legal Information

[Momchil Ivanov]

На 21.3.2007 07:10 написахте:
> On 20/03/07, Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have a strange question that has been bothering mi mind in the past 2
> > hours and it`s about legal notices. Nowadays almost everything is digital
> > and there is usually some copyright/copyleft or whaterver other legal
> > notice assigned to almost every piece of bits/data (binary programs,
> > source codes, images, docs, etc...). In this way of thoughts every e-mail
> > should be considered some kind of intelectual property belonging to its
> > author, shouldn't it?
> >
> > So I was thinking: should there be some kind of legal notice when
> > subscribing to a list (respectively sending an e-mail to a list, not
> > being subscribed to) that says that the author gives exclusive rights to
> > The FreeBSD Foundation to store (archive) and redistribute (the way
> > mailing lists work) e-mails being sent to the list?
> >
> > I have been thinking about this since some people use in their signatures
> > texts like:
> > "You should not copy this e-mail or use it for any other purposes or
> > disclose its contents to any other person."
> >
> > Correct me if I am thinking complete nonsense, please! Mailing list have
> > been live for a long time now, but I think nowadays they need
> > subscriber's permission to redistribute, store and publish subscriber's
> > mails on the web.
> >
> > Thank you for your time reading this :)
> >
> > --
> > This correspondence is strictly confidential. Any screening, filtering
> > and/or production for the purpose of public or otherwise disclosure is
> > forbidden without written permission by the author signed above. If you
> > are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender and
> > permanently delete any copies
>
> This sort of nonsense should probably be on chat@
> rather than doc at .
>
> It is as silly as:
>
> By reading this message you agree to pay me $4500
> cash within the next 10 days or relenquish title to your
> house.

Usually when you register somewhere, you have to click on a checkbox stating 
that you accept the terms and conditions for using your registration. What I 
mean is that we should have something like this for the mailing lists. For 
example: when you subscribe to a mailing list you click on a checkbox to 
allow redistribution and storage of your email.

Sending your content to a mail list is like sending your content to 
youtube/youporn or whatever, the only difference is that usually the former 
is in the form of readable text. Nevertheless, both are published on the web.

http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/
Most of the things on the FreeBSD's web site have some copyright, excluding 
mail lists' archives. We should say something about that content too, don`t 
you thnik?

Maybe I missed something somewhere, maybe I`m completely wrong, but that`s 
what I think, what about you?

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