Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Luke Kendall <luke@********.CANON.OZ.AU>
Subject: Re: A Copyright Proposal
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 17:08:43 +1000
Your proposal seems unfair to people who are considering
using the shadowtalk forum for trying out ideas that they're
planning to use in a separate copyrightable work. It would
scare me off, for instance. Snappy one-liners, witticisms,
examples of extreme cool, should all be `owned' by the person
who came up with them - not just character names.

In certainly should not be retro-active. That smacks of
deception, to me.

I suspect (from the overflow I saw of the MONICA affair) that
several people may be considering writing it up and attempting
to get it published. I assume, in that case, that the publisher(s)
involved would choose the best `version'.

I guess what I'm suggesting, is that shared stories could be left
`up for grabs' (between the participants, naturally) - with anyone
writing such stuff up for publication, having to re-write the
bits `belonging' to other people (like names, witticisms, etc.
that I mentioned above).

And if anyone wanted to include a copyright notice in something
that was entirely their own work, then that clarification should
be accepted as such.

luke

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about A Copyright Proposal, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.