Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: And The Award For Most Legally-Encumbered =?UTF-8?B?4oCcSGVs?= =?UTF-8?B?bG8gV29ybGTigJ0gUHJvZ3JhbSAuLi4=?= Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:54:50 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <9b584a36-f160-4e01-8e2f-ca3f83f17ee4@x10g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <5b0642c5-0634-4b8b-98fc-e9bfcbba1064@b42g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <5ebf790e-1d47-409f-9b00-dc2a890b5bcf@l18g2000yql.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bAymlyY9SkaJNa8Tz2rerw"; logging-data="11143"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/aJmYTHu23W1J8XHWfbTobIju/tv1ywjU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16pre) Gecko/20110305 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10pre In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:vK1cLhWLnAwDj88Nro9GzYLnSzk= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4979 On 06/03/2011 08:28 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Joshua Cranmer wrote: > >> On 06/03/2011 03:49 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> In message, Joshua Cranmer wrote: >>> >>>> On 06/02/2011 11:10 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> >>>>> You mean, the way you could be “breaching copyright” by >>>>> “redistributing” your USENET posting containing quotations of my words? >>>> >>>> Nope, you agreed to let us do that. It's all there in the fine print of >>>> the ToS for your ISP. >>> >>> Feel free to find any evidence on my ISP’s website that it even knows it >>> runs a USENET server. >> >> s/ISP/Usenet provider/, then. > > Go on then, quote me the terms of use of my USENET provider that takes away > my copyright on my own words. It doesn't take away your copyright. It just requires you to grant them an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license to your words, and, if I recall my legal stuff correctly, furthermore allows them to relicense it to other people. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth