[LINK] sharing e-mail banned by law - 5 years jail or $60,000 fines

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Nick,

Thanks for debunking a misconception. My last contribution to this: how the
** can one prove authorship to a forwarded e-mail - I mean to a level of
"legal proof" - given that the audit trail is pretty darn thin?

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Smith [mailto:NSMITH@nla.gov.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2001 10:38
To: 'link@www.anu.edu.au'; 'Chirgwin, Richard'
Subject: RE: [LINK] sharing e-mail banned by law - 5 years jail or
$60,000 fines


No, there is no requirement that copyright be asserted; there is no
registration requirement; no need to to put Joe Bloggs (c) 2000. No need to
do anything. It subsists whether you like it or not. (But you can assert
that the whole world has a licence to use your work however it pleases. This
is a licence and it may be revoked if you change your mind in 20 years).

Not legal advice etc 

Nick
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> ----------
> From: 	Chirgwin, Richard[SMTP:Richard.Chirgwin@informa.com.au]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, 6 March 2001 12:17
> To: 	'link@www.anu.edu.au'
> Subject: 	RE: [LINK] sharing e-mail banned by law - 5 years jail or
> $60,000 fines
> 
> Another wrinkle on this. 
> <generalisation>
> Isn't the general principle with copyright that it can't be claimed if it
> wasn't asserted @ time of publication?
> </generalisation>
> RC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Barry [mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au]
> Sent: Monday, 5 March 2001 17:21
> To: Howard Lowndes
> Cc: Danny Yee; Eric Scheid; Link List
> Subject: Re: [LINK] sharing e-mail banned by law - 5 years jail or
> $60,000 fines
> 
> 
> At 7:44 AM +1100 5/3/01, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >I confidently predict that the corporate legal idiots will get in on this
> >act and we shall see the annoying increase in appended disclaimers
> growing
> >from their existing >10 lines to become 10kb inclusions.  Whatever
> >happened to netiquette.
> 
> Perhaps we need a set of legal words which say (in 10+k) "if you send 
> me this disclaimer more than once and make me liable for the for the 
> cost of downloading it you accept liability for the costs of me doing 
> so".
> 
> We then reply with those words, hopefully once.
> 
> Tony
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