Permission to Use Comments?

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Tue Oct 15 14:37:26 UTC 2019


On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 15:36 +0000, Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[…]
> Pretty sure since this is a public forum, legally you just need 
> to reference your sources (if even that). Asking permission is 
> just polite.
[…]

But the forum/email list does not have terms of use that transfer copyright
from the writer to the owner of the server hosting the forum/email list.
Literary works are copyright the writer unless they give up that copyright.
But IANAL.

Quoting short parts of a literary work with attribution is clearly fair use –
at least in the jurisdictions I know about, there may be some jurisdictions in
which this doesn't apply.

Asking permission guarantees no future copyright case brought against you.

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