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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Copyright and alt.sex.pictures (was: copyright == ill...)
- Message-ID: <9208191557.AA26115@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:57:24 GMT
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- From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Copyright and alt.sex.pictures (was: copyright == ill...)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.135306.398@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 13:53:06 GMT
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- This is a small bit of history about copyright, sueing and alt.sex.
- pictures. Other people can tell the story better than I, so if any are out
- there, I wish they would chime in.
-
- The person who used to keep the FAQ on alt.sex.pictures (I think
- his name was Brian Reid) said that he once sent letters to Playboy, Penthouse
- and Hustler asking them about thier feelings and intentions about things
- like a.s.p. He was at that time thinking of becoming the moderator of
- a.s.p, an event that would have been very good for the net.
- The response, as far as I understand it was that if he became moderator,
- they might consider sueing to stop a.s.p. Otherwise, as long as there
- was no organization, and no profit being made off thier pictures, they
- would not pursue it.
-
- This is the story I refer to when I say that publishers know about
- a.b.p.e. Publishers certainly know about BBS's. The point I think is
- clear. They don't care about a little free distribution of thier
- material, but want to be able to stop it if it becomes abusive, or
- too organized.
- I'm sure Playboy would chock if you said that 4-5 images were all that
- was valuable in thier magazine. In this context you might consider
- a.b.p.e to be nothing mor than free advertising for PLayboy (and the others)
- in violation of usenet practices :-)
-
- DanZ
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