X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!news.glorb.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: And The Award For Most Legally-Encumbered =?UTF-8?B?4oCcSGVsbG8gV29ybGTigJ0=?= Program ... Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:05:47 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 33 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-86-36.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1307228747 28950 118.92.86.36 (4 Jun 2011 23:05:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 23:05:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4983 In message , Joshua Cranmer wrote: > 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. So where does it say that?