| From: | "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Can a GM Copyright his Run? |
| Date: | Tue, 6 Apr 93 06:21:10 CET |
> Finally, let me say that there is a great deal of discussion over whether
> or not email-lists are "public-distribution" or not. The bottom line there
> is that if you are really paranoid about the copyright of something, you
> shouldn't post it to the list. I realize that calling email lists "public
> forums" is counter-intuitive, but it legalese never has made much sense
> anyway.
Thats one of the problem. The shadowtalk logs are publically available.
I also maintain the edited versions which I freely distribute (although I
could copyright these edited ones without any problem as a 'value added'
item). The question is, who can claim shadowtalk? and what can they claim?
> Your best bet about "copyrighting" the characters, IMHO, is to use a
variation
> of the GNUish "Copyleft" license -- which allows more or less free dist.
> as long as the authors retain credit and rights to their work, and no
> money is made off of it.
There may be some legal holes in 'copyleft'. As I said when I started
this topic, I spent some time talking with a magazine editor and bouncing
ideas off of him. He's never heard of anything like 'copylefting' and
doubts its validity. I don't know enough about it to render an opinion,
but I do think it is outside of what we are trying to accomplish here
right now.
[> Robert Hayden ____ <] Black Holes result from God
[> \ /__ <] dividing the universe by zero.
[> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu \/ / <]
[> aq650@****.INS.CWRU.Edu \/ <] # include std_disclaimer.h
