[AusNOG] AUSNOG in the news

[Noel Butler]

The problem is, its waived as fair use as Mark Smith pointed out when
its to a public forum (meaning mailing lists, forums, usenet, etc),
since it by design is public you have no expectation of privacy in
content, the courts IIRC have already made this clear many years ago,
the only time you have copyright and legal recourse is with private
correspondence dissemination which mailing lists are not. All those
disclaimers are not worth anything on public lists where anyone can sign
up. 

On 01/10/2015 17:24, Mark Stewart wrote: 

> It becomes a matter of copyright and who has ownership. Having it publicly open with no real copyright definition and what you can and can't do with the information is up for debate. 
> 
> At least when you have a disclaimer, it protects copyright and ownership of the information within. Speculatively, breaching the disclaimer means breaching copyright laws and no one in their right mind would knowingly breach copyright laws just the sake of a story. Well, I would hope not... 
> 
> But getting back to your question, yes it can be enforced through the courts, if it got that far, if the disclaimer was worded in a way in which to protect copyright and ownership of the information contained within.
 
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