Re: [at-l] Registers on the Web

["Coosa" <coosa@alltel.net>]

This is an interesting point because a) if something is 'posted' for general
(aka hiker, day hiker, backpacker, Thru Hiker, Section Hiker) in a public
(more or less) place, is it not like those computer programs that you can
get off the internet for free?  (early morning senior moment here, I should
be getting ready for work)  -- general domain or something like that?
PUBLIC DOMAIN, the brain inside my head really does work before the second
cup of coffee!  WOW, I'm impressed.  lololololol

If a person wants to protect their copyright, then should they not put the
little R in a circle by their post?

If a person doesn't want their poetry or their ramblings to become PUBLIC
DOMAIN then he or she should NOT place them where the public can read them
before they have been copyrighted.

Doncha think???

WF's Journals have a copyright statement -- all rights are his, and I'm
assuming those who decide to post there agree to that.

Coosa
Howling Wolf

-----Original Message-----

>
>Not to put a fine a point on it (or a bee in your bonnet -- ugh!)
>
>But my point was this - even if people (in general) want their notes to be
>read by others, and even if the register entries are attributed by others
>(be it Season on the Trail, or a www site with a scanned register) they are
>both redistributing the material of hikers without (most likely) their
>consent.
>
>Although I'm not a lawyer (ianal) - and thank goodness for that - I teach a
>class at a local college on ethics and the internet - and one of the
>clearest things we talk about is preserving the copyrights of authors.
>
>I still don't think that anyone (strictly speaking) has the right to quote
>extensively and directly from registers, or place them on the web without
>securing the permissions of all of the authors who will be posted.
>
>** N.B. - Please be sure to note that I'm only making an academic point
>here - I have no personal issue with this - but I wouldn't want to see
>trouble for someone who does this. **
>
>tj
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-at-l@backcountry.net [mailto:owner-at-l@backcountry.net]On
>Behalf Of Coosa
>Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:25 PM
>To: at-l@backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Registers on the Web
>
>
>I dunno about not wanting stuff I put in a register on the world wide web.
>Usually my posts read something like:
>
>"Does the phrase "Leave No Trace" mean anything any more?  I have just
>picked up candy wrappers, cigarette butts, empty pouches of freeze dried
>foods, glass bottles, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, half-burned aluminum
>foil, unburned tin-cans, and assorted trash left in this shelter, swept it
>out and made it habitable, Please return it to better shape than it was
when
>you came to spend the night!  And if you carried something in full, crush
it
>and carry it out empty, there's a trash can North/South of here xx.x miles.
>I estimate that the trash I picked up weighs yy pounds.  Thank you for
>considering the wilderness someone's home and treating it as such."
>
>I'd feel honored to have my post sent out to eveyone who reads a website,
>maybe they'll think about LNT and actually do something about it.
>
>Thank you for your support, YMMV,
>Coosa
>now you know why it's changing to Howling Wolf
>
>
>
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