You might be in the boat I got into once. A customer paid be to write a maintenance guide. Most of it was cut and paste from other customer's past reports. The guide was published, copyrighted, marked proprietary and since I was not an employee, I could not afford to get a copy! JFByrd -----Original Message----- From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces@server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf Of Jack DeRyke via DeTomaso Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 14:15 PM To: kdb@kbyrnes.com; kenn_green@yahoo.com; DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Copyright law Gee, I guess that I own a copywrite to 265 POCA Newsletters 1996-2016, then! They were sent thru the Internet as pdfs to be printed.... J DeRyke Thanks Ken. The issue is a disgruntled former poster of the email list has sent me a request to purge every post he has made to the list. He is claiming he owns the copyright to anything he has written. Is he correct? Thanks, Kurt ------ Original message------ From: Ken Green Date: Mon, May 23, 2016 11:27 PM To: Kurt Byrnes[1];DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com; Subject:Re: [DeTomaso] Copyright law Generally, you are not free to use a copyrighted work in its entirely, or substantial portions, but under the fair use, you can copy short sections of it if you are commenting on them, not reproducing the work as a whole. If it's something simple like a photo or painting, you cannot reproduce it in its original entirely, but I think there was a case where the court found that a low resolution thumb nail version of as copyrighted painting did not infringe because it would never be blown up and used as art. _______________________________________________ Detomaso Forum NO LONGER Managed by POCA Posted emails must not exceed 1.5 Megabytes DeTomaso mailing list [9]DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com [10]http://server.detomasolist.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso To manage your subscription (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) use the links above. References 1. mailto:;DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com 2. https://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/useofweb.html 3. https://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/useofweb.html 4. https://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/useofweb.html 5. https://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/useofweb.html 6. http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/ 7. mailto:<kdb@kbyrnes.com 8. mailto:%20DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com 9. mailto:DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com 10. http://server.detomasolist.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso _______________________________________________ Detomaso Forum NO LONGER Managed by POCA Posted emails must not exceed 1.5 Megabytes DeTomaso mailing list DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com http://server.detomasolist.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso To manage your subscription (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) use the links above.