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  1. Xref: sparky alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk:4046 ucb.english:102 talk.environment:5790 comp.org.eff.talk:9310
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!m2c!bu.edu!stanford.edu!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!nweaver
  3. From: nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,ucb.org.csua,ucb.org.ocf,ucb.english,talk.environment,comp.org.eff.talk
  5. Subject: Re: [ucb.org.csua, et al.]  Re: The Schedule of Classes
  6. Message-ID: <1k4uo6$1et@agate.berkeley.edu>
  7. Date: 27 Jan 93 03:15:18 GMT
  8. References: <C1F4Bs.Hxp@ms.uky.edu> <1k227h$dsb@agate.berkeley.edu> <JMC.93Jan25201400@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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  10. Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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  14. In article <JMC.93Jan25201400@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
  15. >If the phone book database is copyrighted, the owner can go after whoever
  16. >uses it without permission except for what is legally "fair use".  Using
  17. >it for a mass mailing would not count as "fair use".
  18.  
  19.     However, if you remember, the Supreme Court ruled that "compilations
  20. of fact", eg the White pages, are not copyrightable.
  21.  
  22.     Anway, you will still need to go through legal moves to stop it, and
  23. if the information gets into one of the major consumer information
  24. databases, getting it removed would be a real hastle.
  25. -- 
  26. Nicholas C. Weaver                                nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
  27. It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing.
  28.