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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: In Moderation - Good or Bad?
Summary: asdf
Message-ID: <4528@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Jun 89 13:04:31 GMT
References: <1989Jun12.100943.24233@ateng.ateng.com>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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It seems to me that the In Moderation people can legitimately claim a 
compilation copyright on the result of their "moderation" of usenet articles.

As they will be reading all the material they cull from to produce their
moderated stuff, it will be trivial for them to not include any articles
that have a message prohibiting redstribution.  If they were to accidentally
post one once in a while, it would be difficult for the person infringed
to claim that they had been substantially damaged.

There is already an implicit permission to reproduce granted by the act of
posting an article, as this is the means by which it is distributed.

They may make enough money to be profitable.  I wish them luck.  I predict,
though, that the status quo (free feeds, with unmoderated groups left
unmoderated) will be the norm for a large majority of sites.
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