[ih] Fwd: Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 3 is BS

Nigel Roberts nigel at channelisles.net
Fri Oct 10 03:03:16 PDT 2025


As Karl says "fair use" has been grossly misused.

But of course one would not object too much. But the fact is you retain 
your copyright in anything you write.


On 10/10/2025 10:25, Eberhard W Lisse via Internet-history wrote:
> Nigel,
>
> I think you are wrong, actually, fair use with attribution would be allowed. In particular for research.
>
> Not that I have contributed much myself, but I would have no objection whatsoever against my emails being used even for books.
>
> What I don't like are off-topic contributions and most certainly blatant marketing.
>
> And probably that goes for most of us.
>
>
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> On Oct 10, 2025 at 09:16 +0200, Nigel Roberts via Internet-history<internet-history at elists.isoc.org>, wrote:
>
>> It's like any mailing list, surely.
>>
>> Your copyright is yours on anything you write.
>>
>> We are aware the mailing list archives are, rightly, available to be
>> read, but that doesn't give anyone any rights to reproduce the material
>> further.
>>
>>
>> On 09/10/2025 20:37, Joe Touch via Internet-history wrote:
>>
>>>>> On Oct 9, 2025, at 12:30 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history<internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Question out of curiousity -- who owns the rights to the material we all post on this forum? The authors? The ISOC? The public?
>>> The authors, far as I know, but it’s posted for public access.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
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