Re: Garden banter

Sacha <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 27/4/07 09:12, in article 4631b054$0$642$bed64819@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"tinnews@xxxxxxxxxx" <tinnews@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

Copyright doesn't have to be stated to exist. Just about everything
one writes is automatically copyright and this applies to newsgroup
postings as much as anything else. However because of the public
nature of newsgroups it's accepted that their contents are fairly
freely quotable without infringing the original writer's copyright.

At least this is my understanding.

I think we all know that is the case but what some of us object to is the
freeloading for commercial purposes. They're 'stealing' other peoples'
knowledge, information, experiences and using them to promote their own
interests and they haven't even asked if they may do so. It's shabby and
greedy, as are those who endorse it, not that many here do.

Quite, but I suspect that there's little one can do about it except
possibly to join Gardenbanter and make one's case there in the hope
that its readers will move to Usenet proper.

What is interesting is that on the home page there is this:
"The comments are property of their posters. "

So they are at least acknowledging your/my copyright.

--
Chris Green
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