in reply to (OT) Who can use freely available material?
One was a link where a person had mirrored my course...
Taking your content, and placing it on their servers for display without your permission is not a very polite thing to do. You would be completely justified in asking them to take it down and replace it with a link to your site.
Nowhere does it list how people may or may not link to it.
I haven't heard of a single country in which people need your permission to link to a website. Links that misrepresent the course (e.g. click here for the course cjf wrote ;) may be another matter.
Are their any legal issues that I should be worried about?
I would ask anyone mirroring your course to replace their mirror with a link. Suggest this is because you want to ensure the content is up to date and they'll likely agree. I wouldn't worry about who's linking to your site though, it's not something you can really control, and I'm not sure why you would want to.
Update: As for a notice of copyright this says:
The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U.S. law, although it is often beneficial. Because prior law did contain such a requirement, however, the use of notice is still relevant to the copyright status of older works.
And a few more relevant links:
Hope that helps :).
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Re: Re: (OT) Who can use freely available material?
by Sifmole (Chaplain) on May 29, 2002 at 11:16 UTC | |
by delegatrix (Scribe) on May 29, 2002 at 12:25 UTC |