On 9/19/2012 11:24 AM, John Levine wrote:
Utility can determine whether it's worth the effort/expense to run a
public archive, but your utility never undermines my rights as an author.
We're very deep into Junior Lawyer territory here.
I'm not. I'm simply refuting *any* argument that starts with "because
it's useful to the community".
There are other arguments - that lawyers will make - that depend on the
particular boilerplate used, when the ID was published, whether
click-based copyright transfer holds up, and so forth.
But utility doesn't drive the law. There are rights -rights of the
author, and rights of the copyright holder - which are protected here,
and they trump any perceived benefit to the community.
Joe