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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Ben said:In most jurisdictions copyright is automatic.
True.
How does Usenet negate these automatic rights?
It does not, although it should be noted that the correct "most" in your
statement implies that those rights are not granted automatically everywhere
where Usenet articles are distributed or retrieved to.
But copyright was only another of Korpela's red herrings, and in this case
also an outright lie: Copyright has nothing to do with attributed quotation
as it is customary in Usenet. Given proper attribution, anyone can quote
anything from anyone anywhere in Usenet without running the risk of a
copyright lawsuit.
Copying posting content for reuse elsewhere without explicit given
permission of the author, given sufficient threshold of originality and lack
of distribution license that makes permission unnecessary, is an entirely
different issue.
Please stay on-topic.
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PointedEars, IANAL