> > step aside, son... SHAZAM!
> >
> > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
>
> And...shazam...does anyone (meaning any "controlling legal authorities")
> care? Russ Smith and Cockburn have been treating statements on LBO like any
> personal comments people might make at a meeting or a room. Just because
> they are written down (with whatever nice tag lines) does not mean they are
> protected if they are not considered protected writing in the first place.
you're right. doug, you should wrap every lbo-talk message in concertina and implant a homing device in its butt, and while you're at it boobytrap the digests so that any misuse makes a critique pointing at the misuser ('smart rhetoric'[tm]).
ahem. no, nathan, a .sig line won't automagically make people do something. but then again, nor does some fantastical 'open source' license that distinguishes between profit and not-for- profit, which iirc was your too-clever-by-half proposal. it's really pathetic what it does, by your Machtwonk standards: it suggests that people should ask first. 'radical' concept...
cheers, t - i like 'Machtwonk.' just made it up!