Hi Glenn,
>Especially when you consider that so far not a single reason has been raised against the proposed action.
Allow me to be the first.
Attempting to wipe away someone copyrights by merely saying so seems a bit agressive to me. Then to not give others a informed opportunity to open source or license those copyrights before the change is made seems even more aggressive. But to give away someones copyrights to the general public without even attempted contact seems to me, most agessive. Aren't the people in those registries your customers? I have copywritten material on those registries and I was nt under any obligation to give up copyrights when a submission was made, nor am I in any particular hurry to do so. Or perhaps this is just for submissions going forward, is that right?
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 00:47, Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Protocol registries are analogous to telephone directories.
The US Supreme Court held that white page directories are not entitled to copyright, overturning the decisions of the District Court and Court of Appeals.
Feist Publications, Incorporated v. Rural Telephone Service Company, Incorporated, 499 U.S. 340 (1991).
