[1706] in WWW Security List Archive
Copyright and the Web (was: Thanks for the downloading help)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prentiss Riddle)
Fri Mar 22 16:54:13 1996
From: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>
To: crowley@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Albert T Crowley),
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:45:00 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199603211656.LAA19460@gradin.cis.upenn.edu> from "Albert T Crowley" at Mar 21, 96 11:56:08 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
[I don't believe that this topic belongs in the www-security mailing
list. I have crossposted this to comp.infosystems.www.advocacy and
misc.legal.computing and I encourage everyone to follow up there.
See the message <news:4iul9m$hmh@larry.rice.edu>].
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:56:08 -0500
> From: crowley@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Albert T Crowley)
> To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Thanks for the downloading help!
>
>
> Making the page available by http does not implicitly wave the
> copyright....we all are just breaking the law every time we look at a
> web site.
Highly unlikely. There exists in copyright doctrine the concept of an
"implied license". This topic has been beaten to death in the context
of Usenet: someone who posts a message to Usenet grants by implication
a license that their work may be distributed by normal channels to
Usenet sites around the world. See the Copyright FAQ, section 3.8:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/Copyright-FAQ/part3/faq.html
Similarly, I think it is plausible to assume that web publishers grant
an implied license to web users (meeting whatever access control
restrictions the publisher has put in place) to may make copies in RAM
in order to view the documents.
[Again, let's move this topic out of the www-security list.]
-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
-- RiceInfo Administrator, Rice University / http://is.rice.edu/~riddle
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
