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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Copyrights on netnews articles
- Message-ID: <711922018snx@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 20:06:58 GMT
- References: <8411.Jul2521.20.3292@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
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- Organization: What organization???
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- In article <8411.Jul2521.20.3292@virtualnews.nyu.edu> brnstnd@nyu.edu writes:
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- > I think this means that Brad wins by default: as he was saying (though
- > he said it badly), there's no way that an author can grant ``implicit
- > permission'' for copying his articles. (This doesn't mean that USENET
- > distribution constitutes a copyright violation, for two reasons, as I
- > explained in a previous article.)
- You are right, but the law only protects the copying of the message, not it's
- idea's. So I can still extract the ideas from a posting and write them down in
- my own words. Nothing illegal about that.
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- > And, as he was saying, this is good, because if we were to interpret
- > USENET distribution of a single article as copying by many thousands of
- > individuals, then all of those individuals will be liable for (e.g.) the
- > recent posting of some writings by Douglas Adams.
- Well, isn't USENET distribution based on *copying* the files from one machine
- to another?
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
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- I don't do .sigs
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