On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:51:38 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>If you look at the expanded message headers for the messages posted here
>you will find the following statement -
>
>X-Copyright: This copyrighted article comes from a private news server
>             and may NOT be distributed on USENET or other news servers.
>
>I'm not sure that this gives the POV-Team any rights to further distribute
>our work or the messages posted here but it seems possible that it might.

I don't get that impression from that statement at all. In fact, it
makes me wonder how the POV-Team could own the copyrights to mine and
other people's comments. I think they don't have the rights to
re-publish what I, or others, have said here without permission. 

For a moment, I considered that perhaps this is considered a public
forum and the comments part of some sort of public record, but they
claim in the above statement that this is a *private* forum, and seem
to claim ownership of the contents.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset about anything here. I'm just not
sure how much ownership they might have over comments and concepts
expressed by myself or others. Under US law, I own the copyright to
anything I create, from the moment of it's creation, unless I decide
to transfer all or part of those rights to another party. However,
this is an international forum, and that is sure to complicate things
in ways I can't predict. Personally, I would never publish anything
here that I considered a valuable secret anyway.

I don't care too much at this point if we lose the older messages. It
might be nice to keep an eternal archive of old files, but eventually
the storage space would be an issue again, even if we were to solve it
for the moment.  Nothing lasts forever, and sometimes holding onto the
past gets in the way of one's future. 

later,
Glen Berry

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