International Law

Copyright Disclaimer

By Karl-Friedrich Lenz

The copyright notice for this blog reads:

Please feel free to forward copies of this work to others, mirror it on your homepage or blog, or post it on bulletin boards or P2P networks. However, please leave my name attached and don?t edit the work. Commercial use requires separate permission.

Permission for such commercial use is expressly denied to Google. I object specifically to inclusion in their cache and access to my pages with the ?Google Web Accelerator?.

Many people seem to think that the act of posting something to the Web gives anybody an implied permission to copy that posted content for use in a search engine.

I for one give no such permission. Anybody assuming that I do is making up a completely fictitous permission out of thin air, and is acting against my clearly expressed will as an author. In other words, they don’t care one bit what I as an author actually want, but feel entitled to decide what I must want in my place. That is not how copyright is supposed to work.

Full post as published by Lenz Blog on October 07, 2009 (boomark / email).