Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3 Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 14:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <82899649-014a-4309-b06e-b981fc6921fa@googlegroups.com> <201405130145.05995.gheskett@wdtv.com> <857g5q9pvk.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <53722081$0$29980$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5372b091$0$29977$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5xJcv.77901$dT1.66255@fx12.am4> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1400251583 19119 64.122.56.22 (16 May 2014 14:46:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 14:46:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:71663 On 2014-05-14, alister wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2014 10:08:57 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano >> wrote: >>> With the current system, all of us here are technically violating >>> copyright every time we reply to an email and quote more than a small >>> percentage of it. >> >> Oh wow... so when someone quotes heaps of text without trimming, and >> adding blank lines, we can complain that it's a copyright violation - >> reproducing our work with unauthorized modifications and without >> permission... >> >> I never thought of it like that. > I think I could make a very strong case that anything sent to a public > forum with the intention of being broadcast has been placed into the > public domain by this action. At least in the US, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as "placing a work into the public domain". The copyright holder can transfer ownershipt to soembody else, but there is no "public domain" to which ownership can be trasferred. IIRC, there is a way under Germain copyright law to release certain rights. The mere act of widely widely distributing something does not in any way relinquish copyrights. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Am I elected yet? at gmail.com