Copyright issue (Was: Please don't send ethnographic study through the listserv...)

koos de heer koosdhr at auryn.nl
Sun Feb 27 23:50:44 PST 2000


Dear Rochelle,

At 10:07 28-02-2000 +1100, you wrote:
>Isn't there a copyright issue here?

There probably is, although this depends on:
- the author and/or the publisher of the work
  (have they claimed copyright)
- and on the different national laws of the
  country of the server and the country of the
  surfer.

If copyright is limited, both sending it to a listserv
and publishing it on the web will be illegal in most
countries. If it already is on the web, posting a link
to that location is legal. There is one exception to
this: if it is on the web illegally and you know it,
posting a link will be considered illegal in some
cases.

Hope this helps.
Koos

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utrecht, netherlands
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