19 Aug
2005
19 Aug
'05
8:20 p.m.
Lee Revell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:35 +0100, tim hall wrote:
just in the interests of clarifying something (i doubt it will serve
much practical purpose here):
it is agreed that, in the absence of any other licensing information,
that creative works will default to "All rights reserved" ... but out of
interest, does posting a link with explicit permission to download (ie
copy) a song, give up any copyrights *in that instance* ? because you
are, in effect, lifting some of those implied copyright restrictions
(otherwise it would be against the law to make a copy of it, wouldn't it?).
shayne
If we are going to assume CC status for works
posted here
IANAL but I am almost positive that would not hold up in a US court.
Creative works default to "All rights reserved", which includes anything
posted to this list without a specific license attached, regardless of
what the informal list policy is.