Re: clarification
From: cindy shruhan (cindyandbobby@webtv.net)
Sat Nov 23 11:23:15 2002
At Fri, 22 Nov 2002, cathy:- wrote:
>
>This is Friday, and I am still looking at stuff written on Sunday, so
>perhaps someone else has already pointed this out already in the
>interim...
>
>1) In order to retain copyright on anything that you have written, you
>do not have to register with any office or anything. All you need to do
>is put the words:
>
>"copyright, " plus a date, plus your name, plus the words "all rights
>reserved."
>
>You can also put something other than "all rights reserved" like for
>example, "copying allowed as long as the author is acknowledged" or
>"copying allowed only if you copy the entire document including this
>notice"
>
>2) I think maybe you all must be nicer people than I am, because I can
>imagine all sorts of nefarious purposes that people's stories could be
>put to that the site's legal language protects everyone from even if
>just a little bit. Suppose Suzy Q Bellyhurts posted her story on the
>quilt that said, "I had surgery with Dr. ABC using barrier XYZ and the
>adhesions came back in 2 days. Two years later I had gassless
>laporoscopy in Germany with spray gel and now I am adhesion free!"
>Suppose that Dr. ABC made up a brochure that said "I had surgery with
>Dr. ABC using barrier XYZ and ... now I am adhesion free!" -- Suzy Q
>Bellyhurts. Since Dr. ABC took this from the quilt, the even if Suzy
>can't or won't take legal action to force Dr. ABC to cease and desist,
>Synchion could do so on its own behalf.
>
>3) About the internet... When you post your story on the internet it is
>not in the public domain (which is a legal term meaning that you don't
>have a copyright on it) but it IS "in public" and accessible to anyone
>with access to the internet. I have been posting on the net for 14
>years now. About 5 years ago I stopped using my first and last name on
>postings. Something to think about along with your own personal comfort
>level is to go to http://www.google.com and type in your first and last
>name and see what comes up. In my case some long ago discussions on
>soc.religion.christion about computer codes to give the exact date of
>Easter in an arbitrary year come up -- that puppy is archived all over
>the place! :-) But something to understand is that if your story shows
>up in google when you search for your name, it's not that google has
>"taken" your story. They simply have entered your story's location into
>their index, so that when someone searches on "adhesions" then the
>http://www.adhesions.org/quilt address of your story will show up on the list
>of things on the net which are related to adhesions.
>
>If somebody else said all this already, just ignore me! :-)
>
>At Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Helen Dynda wrote:
>>
>>Karen, You are correct!!
>>
>>In June 1998 I posted my story for the very first time at the
>>Healthseek.com forum - which is no longer on the Internet as of January
>>2001.
>>
>>In October 1998 - while I was in the process of doing research on one of
>>the Search Engines, I couldn't believe my eyes!! - I SAW MY STORY ON THE
>>INTERNET...for everyone to read!!!!
>>
>>I had no idea how it got there; and I had no idea how to have it
>>removed! There was only one alternative left!! I decided to leave my
>>story on the Internet. This decision became the best therapy "in the
>>world" for me!!
>>
>>In my story I mentioned that I was willing to share some of the best
>>websites I had found about adhesions. Over a period of about three
>>years - as people from around the world read my story on the Internet -
>>I received more than 1,000 emails (Not all at once, thank goodness!!),
>>from people who had read my story!!
>>
>>When I decided to "leave my story on the Internet", I have met some of
>>the nicest people in the world, literally speaking. So many expressed
>>their gratitude for my willingness to share information with them - and
>>a side benefit for me was that these POSTIVE MESSAGES enabled me to
>>block the full effect of pain messages from reaching my brain - a
>>wonderful example of the mind-body connection!!
>>
>>I'm just sharing from my experience.
>>
>>Helen D.
>>
>>~ ~ ~ ~
>>
>>At Sun, 17 Nov 2002, kann wrote:
>>>
>>>Once your story is "posted", it is no longer your private story. It beco es
>>>public
>>>domain. I think that need to be clarified to eveyone.
>>>karen
>
>--
>cathy :-)
>
HI TO ALL, I JUST READ THIS POSTING, AND I DID GO TO THE WEBSITE, AND
PUT MY NAME IN THERE, AND I WAS SHOCKED, I ALSO SAVED THIS FOR MY
HUSBAND TO SEE, SO I APPLAUD THE WORK, AND WORDS THAT WERE POSTED
HERE...GOOD JOB TO ALL..LOVE CINDY SHRUHAN cindyandbobby@webtv.net
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I'M VISUALLY IMPAIRED, I NEED THE CAP'S IN ORDER TO TYPE, NOT TO OFFEND ANYONE..THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING...