Um, yes, this is precisely what I've just said.
1. by posting to a CDR node, he implicitly consents to all duplication
caused by the CDR feeds, to search engines, individuals, archivers, other
CDR's, etc.
2. A book of all his posts would be clearly in violation of his copyright.
I'm unsure if a single message quoted in its entirety would not be
in violation. I believe it would be in as much a copyright violation
as Choate's posting an entire article to the list as he did before he
started sending just urls.
The odds of him winning a lawsuit based on a single message posted in
its entirety is something for lawyers (and bookies? :) to debate. But
IMHO it would violate copyright.
Of course since he has previously posted entire stories, I'm sure he
could be countersued. Blah, blah, blah...
I do find it interesting how he likes to call the kettle black when
he used to violate copyright on a regular basis...
Like I said, I'd hate myself in the morning for this. :)
Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> Choate has given an implied consent for his posts to be redistributed
> in certain ways. Much as Usenet participants do. He has probably
> not given consent for all of his posts to be combined and sold by
> Wired as a book (of course this is just a hypothetical, nobody would
> buy it).
>
> Choate, however, would have a very weak case if I was to reproduce
> one of his posts in a Wired article. Copyright law, as the lawyers
> can attest, includes many factors a court would weigh, and he'd
> almost certainly lose.
>
> So be careful before agreeing with our resident tentacle.
>
> -Declan
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:21:27PM -0400, Sunder wrote:
> > >From the "I'm gonna hate myself in the morning for this, but" files.
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