>As a corollary, the act of publishing material on this list is tantamount
>to unrestricted publication.
>
On the wider implications of your claimed corollary using the phrase
"unrestricted publication" I feel that I must contradict you, for it is not,
in my opinion, a corollary of what Sarasvati wrote. The dictionary before
me gives the meaning of the word corollary as "n. inference from a preceding
statement; deduction; result". I feel that for the avoidance of doubt that
it should be made clear that publishing material on this list is not
"unrestricted publication" as such, for authors retain the copyright in any
document that they have authored.
Sending a document to this list for distribution may grant a licence to the
Unicode Consortium to publish copies both on the list and in a web based
archive, yet the act of publishing an item on this list does not put the
intellectual property rights of a document so published into the public
domain.
Sarasvati discussed the matter of the word "confidential" being on a
document. The word "copyright" was also in that part of the Adobe document
that Sarasvati quotes. Sarasvati did not make mention of the word
"copyright" in her comments.
William Overington
24 April 2001
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