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- From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e distribution, pay membership (Was: RE: Child Pornography)
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:37:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.213713.29355@clarinet.com>
- References: <1992Nov16.163545.5382@nntp.nta.no> <BxxnHM.J8y@zoo.toronto.edu> <Bxy4EM.DA6@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Bxy4EM.DA6@cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >distributors and faciliators are books stores, printers, and
- >auditorium owners. Publishers are reponsible for material;
- >distributors/faciliators generally are not. This protection comes from
- >the general right of freedom of expression (as protected by the First
- >Amendment); it does not depend on legislated previleges ala "common
- >carriers".
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- But don't forget the Kinko's copy shops case. If you are a distributor
- and you know or should have known that what you were asked to do was
- illegal, you can be liable.
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- Kinkos let a professor copy reams of textbooks on a regular basis. They
- ended up paying big time dollars.
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- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
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