To the Forest List-owner & fellow list-members, > In a recent message to the forest-list, Mr Nelson Wong has enclosed a > copyrighted message from the Yahoo distribution of Reuters news. > He does not state that he has obtained the right to redistribute > this copyrighted text. True. > The very document Mr. Wong enclosed has a clear copyright statement at the > bottom: <CITE> > Copyright © 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. > Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly > prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall > not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any > actions taken in reliance thereon > </CITE> Also true. We have with us a neighbouring country where hundreds of thousands, if not already a million, hectares of forest have been devastated by fire. The region has be cloaked with a haze/smog from these fires. For the first time in history, the Air Pollutant Index overtook the region's stock exchange indexes! Thousands of people here will suffer long term health effects/problems from the haze. Some already have died although the exact totals are not known to date. The international communities have classified this incident as an international environment disaster. Yet strangely the 'greenies' which have so quick to condemn the forestry policies & management in this region have not lifted a finger to help. We have yet to see anything or anyone from Greenpeace or RAN coming to help to fight the fires. FYI, thousands are suffering & dying from starvation in PNG due to El Nino. Where are the NGOs who were once so 'concerned' about the natives & the forests of PNG? Faced with such a magnitude of environmental disaster & human suffering, should I remain silent? Should I be concerned about copyrights, etc.....The media which breached all levels of human decency to hound & hunted a princess to an untimely death, in a tunnel in Paris, now says I have no right to tell the world about this calamity? The world now has no right to know? You have to decide. As a listowner I have to emphasize that this kind activity is forbidden. An activity did you say? I guess to people like you, the forests lost to fires & the human sufferings to follow would be reckoned as a mere detail in history. How cold can one get? Any person breaching this rule after a personal notification may be > excluded from sending messages to the forest list. > > ########################################################################## > FOREST LIST POLICY: > > it is FORBIDDEN to forward copyrighted documents either > received directly by mail or from a web-site with a browser to the > FOREST mailing list without the consent of the copyright owner. > If such a permission has been obtained, this has to be mentioned > in the message body. > > You can always give a reference to a website and document(URL), > but you may not send full-text copies of such documents, without > prior permission. > ########################################################################## So what else is new? I have seen this notice several times before. You & the media can keep your sanitized principles, in your ivory towers, and can still be morally wrong! As it was said to Scarlett O'Hara at the end of 'Gone with the Wind' - Frankly Ma'am I don't give a damn! You have before you a very powerful tool as the Forest List-owner. You can keep your white-washed priciples, or you can help change the world (apologies to Steve Job & John Scully). The choice is yours! God bless. Nelson Wong MTC
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