On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Daniel J. Boone wrote:
List owners have nothing to do with, and cannot affect, the intellectual property rights of list contributors. Your aspirations to the contrary notwithstanding.
Actually they can if there is a contract that requires it and you as a IP owner sign it. For example, what I had originaly intended to do with the SSZ node was to 'authenticate' each submission. That means the software sends it to the list owner for verification. At that point a contract between myself and each subscriber would have specifically, and individualy, converted each submission to SSZ to public domain. It would have used digital signatures for post authentication of the contract if there were a disagreement at a later time. Currently you are correct, there are no stipulations of transfer of IP related to participating in the CDR. I now believe that is the best policy. ____________________________________________________________________ To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x+1)-ecrable. Edgar Allan Poe The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------