Back to That Copyright Clause. (yes, I know I should be combining)

[heiditandy]

Oh, thwap me for not combining. Yahoo's been acting weird, and I 
didn't even see this until I'd replied to the other posts.


--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Przemyslaw Plaskowicki" 
<przepla at i...> wrote:
> Tom Wall wrote:
> 
> >"Further, in so posting, you also grant the HPFGU LIst
> >Administrators the license to use, distribute,
> >reproduce, modify, adapt and publicly display such
> >post(s) for the purposes of providing and promoting
> >the various HP4GU groups and sites."
> >
> >  
> >
> Is this clause was ever used?

Yes, this clause has been used. Providing the groups/sites is 
covered by the existence of the Archive groups, and promoting the 
groups & sites is covered by the existence of the Fantastic Posts 
series. 



> But she sent them to me and many other people. They've got those 
letters 
> in my inbox. I can do whatever I'd like with them within Fair Use 
doctrine.

Actually, in the states, you as a user are only able to print those 
posts and save them to your hard drive, and reply to them on the 
HPfGU family of lists. The Mods have more rights than that, but a 
regular user can't, say, incorporate the text from someone else's 
post into a book that you sell for your own profit. There are, per 
my earlier post, some allowances for news/feature news reporting, 
criticism, educational purposes, etc., but you can't turn someone's 
TBAY into a Broadway play just because said TBAY has been posted to 
the main list.

Silly example, I know, and not very realistic, but I hope it's 
illistrutive. 

Heidi