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Subject: Re: CCC Messages Copyright Issues - Please Voice Your Opinions !

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 08:09:12 11/16/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 09:55:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 16, 2001 at 07:57:43, Andrei Fortuna wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 2001 at 07:20:34, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>>Ony a few questions. Are you sure of the copyrights issue? Whom have you
>>>asked?Have you tought about other possible issues? It is a nice resource >though,
>>>but it might be prudent to have asked around beforehand.
>>
>>Not once did it cross my mind a thought about copyright problems. All I had in
>>mind was to write a search engine for the archives and put it online.
>>So here I am asking all CCC members :
>>      1) Does anybody has any problem with me making the CCC Archives searchable
>>(from a moral viewpoint) ?
>
>Not at all.

Thank You !

>>      2) From a legal viewpoint who owns the copyright of the messages ?
>
>The original author, _always_.

OK

>>      3) Any other problems in connection to copyright ?
>
>Comments snipped and posted elsewhere are illegal, by copyright law, just
>as copying something from a book or magazine and posting it somewhere is also
>illegal.

Does this category includes my search engine site ? I.e. I post messages from
icdchess and I alter them (I remove the header and color reply quotes)

IIRC it was discussed somewhere at some point if google providing cached web
sites is legal or not, I see similarities to this case.

Cheers,
Andrei



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