“Microsoft is claiming copyright over its security notices and
insisting that mailing lists can no longer publish the Beast of
Redmond’s dire security warnings.”
“The lawyers at Microsoft have objected to the publication
of its security notices by SecurityFocus.com, which runs the
popular BugTraq security mailing list.”
“Elias Levy, of SecurityFocus.com, told readers of the site: “As
the copyright holders of the work they have told me in no uncertain
terms that I do not have their permission to redistribute a text
version of their web page bulletins via the mailing list or the
securityfocus.com web site, and that doing so would be considered
an act of copyright violation.”