Re: [Paddlewise] Policy Intended To Protect PaddleWise Members From Misquotings

Just two notes to contribute to the discussion:

1. On the lists that I run, I have instituted a policy which I believe
to be consistent with the Berne Convention's copyright provisions.  To wit,
each poster retains the copyright on their own messages, but I, as the
list-owner/manager, retain the copyright on the compilation.

This (a) allows each participant in the list to grant permission
for the republication of their own messages (b) prevents a participant
from republishing another participant's messages and (c) prevents a
third party from snarfing the entire archive and republishing it.
(As an aside, I've been very disappointed to discover how often my
work, whether compilation or FAQ or whatnot, has been republished
without my name on it.  I've been involved in one dispute -- over
a FAQ I've maintained for roughly a decade and which was heavily
plagiarized -- for two years.)

2. I've had the following taped to my monitor wherever I've been
for over fifteen years now, ever since I first became aware of it:

	Never say anything in an electronic message that you wouldn't want
	appearing, and attributed to you, in tomorrow morning's front-page
	headline in the New York Times.

		- Colonel David Russell, former head
		of DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office

Given the ubiquitous nature of the web, the pervasiveness of search
engines, and the growing number of archive sites out there, this
is probably better advice than ever.

---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk_at_gsp.org

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