I tend to agree with Ed. This list constitutes more of a publication and distribution system than a research system. If it were a research system, and we distributed materials as we have done, then we would probably have to make the list password protected and moderated to some extent as lists for classes or lists for research groups usually are.
Ed:
sorry...but I also disagree pretty strongly with this. This list isn't doing research. It's chatting. It may be learning about research issues...but list members are neither signed up for credit for a class, nor are they engaged in active research as part and parcel to their participation here. I don't buy it.
Further, even if one of us is doing research, we aren't all on/in the same project...so forwarding us copyright protected stuff goes outside the intent (in my view).
Of course....I'm no lawyer . . . and this is a brave new frontier.
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