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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

Re: Legal issues with mailing lists.

From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 00:23:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> This doesn't concern Chris or me, per se. This would be of concern to a
> number of subscribers. We get messages posted to Pednet that range from
> chatty to what could be considered a proto message for a scholarly
> article. Several of our subscribers have their own Web sites, some of
> which are quite elaborate, especially Todd Litman's VTPI site. They
> would not agree that posting an article in an email message to Pednet
> means that they've given consent to having that article republished in
> an unrelated media.

  This is something to fix up very quickly then.  I never intended to
offer via FLORA.org the ability of people to post scholarly articles via
mailing lists that are believed to have such copyright restrictions on
them.

  Your other issue of someone re-publishing without attribution, or 
claiming it to be their own, is not affected by the license agreement that 
I'm discussing.  If someone did that then they are in violation of 
copyright (moral rights) in Canada, and likely in violation under tort law 
as well (although I'm not as familiar with this area of law).

  Sounds like either the list should be moved, and/or these people should
be told to only post URL's to the list rather than full text.

---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
 electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than 
 politicians should be bought.  -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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