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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

Re: Legal issues with mailing lists.

From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk_-at-_chinet.com>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:23:10 -0500 (CDT)

At 11:20am -0400, 05/17/03, Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 May 2003, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>No one posting a scholarly article to Pednet, or posting something they
>>intend to save on their own Web site, intends to stifle discussion of their
>>own works or prevent others from building upon their studies. They damn well
>>expect to receive credit as appropriate.

>  a) The proposed license agreement does not do what you think it does.

If derivation rights have been assigned, that gives the assignee control over
derivatives including expectations of receiving credit. You also want authors
to assign future publication rights.

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