Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: sample document library: copyright, copyleft, CC, GPL?

[Stuart Joseph (stuart]

I think we might be getting too paranoid here.

If the insurance company  was worried about a groups rules and 
regulations, they would ask for copies from the groups anyway.

It would take then some work to look up the documents online, they would 
need to know that they were online to begin with and then look for them. 
It would be easier for them to ask for the HOA than seeing if they are 
on the Web.

If folks don't want to found via a web search, the pages can be 
protected against indexing by the search engines by some HTML code that 
is added to the page (I don't remember what it is).

As Cataya says, it is easy enough to setup a contact box to ask 
permission, just more work for the web master. My suggestion would be to 
just have an email link to the person that grants permission, which can 
be done by adding it to the document or the disclaimer.
It is easy enough to click on it to send them an email from within your 
browser.

I feel that if you want to use someone's documents and they want you to 
ask permission to do so, it only takes a minute and that is not much to 
ask, especially if the user is saving time and lawyer fees by not having 
to make their own from scratch.

My $.02 (how I miss the Cents sign).

Catya Belfer-Shevett wrote:
> Tim Mensch wrote:
>   
> > Catya Belfer-Shevett wrote:
> >     
> > > It may be that worryihng too much about licensing is just complicating 
> > > things?  Why not just leave the docs copyright to the groups who created 
> > > them, and folks can ask permission before using them?
> > >   
> > >       
> > Because that way the groups would be linked to their documents online, 
> > with potential bad insurance consequences? It's great that your group 
> > has taken the risk and published your docs online--but not all groups 
> > may be willing to take that risk.
> >     
>
> Fair point (some of ours are behind a password, but not many.  we're 
> also not dealing with insurance companies yet :) ) - it's easy enough to 
> have a contact form / email address for asking, though?
>
>         - catya
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