Theos-Talk Archives (April 2003 Message tt00065)

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> guilty. Sometimes, someone makes reference to people on another list. 
> Shouldn't those people, and anyone else privy to the conversation, get a 
> carbon of the response? (Putting the separate question of "cross posting" 
> aside.)
That is sending someone something in private. There is a major 
difference between that and posting on a public list.

> LHM: What's private about public disclosure? What's the law for reprinting 
> someone's letter written in a public forum that can be accessed by anyone? 
What if it isn't a public forum accessible by anyone? For example, 
theos-l is NOT such a list.

Television programs are publicly broadcast and available to anyone. If 
someone makes a commentary on a news show, are you allowed to freely 
copy, reprint, and distribute that person's commentary?

> Public information is public information. 
There is a difference between information available to the public and 
public domain.

Bart Lidofsky