From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 17:18:21 MST
> (Michael M. Butler <mmb@spies.com>):
> Some time ago, I mentioned that I had transcribed Eric Drexler's
> closing remarks at the Foresight Senior Associates Gathering 2002...
> Good: I've been informed by senior Foresight staff that Eric is using
> my transcript as the armature for a journal article.
> Bad: As a consequence, it appears I am *not* authorized to release
> my transcript.
"As a consequence" here is incorrect. Under present law, which
recognizes copyright even in unpublished speech, you cannot publish
your transcript regardless of what Eric may or may not do with it.
Absent explicit permission to republish Eric's words, it is assumed
that he chooses to retain all exclusive rights to them. You can,
of course, publish an account of your own recollections about the
substance of the talk--that is, you can tell us what facts and
speculations and arguments you heard in your own words. The only
way he could restict that is to show that you signed a valid
non-disclosure agreement before hearing it.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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