Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!zodiac!joyce!hercules!fernwood!asylum!romkey From: romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation - Good or Bad? Message-ID: <2482@asylum.SF.CA.US> Date: 13 Jun 89 05:53:52 GMT References: <1989Jun12.100943.24233@ateng.ateng.com> Reply-To: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey,The Asylum) Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA Lines: 40 In article <1989Jun12.100943.24233@ateng.ateng.com> chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >(Of course, all this may turn out to me moot. The In Moderation people >still have to deal with the issue of article copyright. Until they settle >that problem, I wouldn't fork over any hard-earned dollars, even if I did >want to subscribe.) >-- >You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. >Chip Salzenberg | or >A T Engineering | Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! Um, I don't see any copyright here. The courts are very strict on what they accept as a valid copyright (for the reason of avoiding people saying "Well, that *was* my copyright message and they didn't understand it" after the fact, when it was written in Sanskrit or something). Anyway, there's no binding obligation as far as a court of law would be concerned for someone to honor a request like that in your .signature. Your .signature should look something like this: >Copyright 1989 by Chip Salzenberg. You may redistribute this article >only to those who may freely do likewise. and you might have something legal. I'm still not sure how legally binding it is, though, probably someday someone will find out - the only way to be sure who wins a lawsuit over a .signature violation (so please, everyone, let's not start flaming about who knows more about copyrights, okay?). By the way, suppose that IN MODERATION does not restrict the flow of "raw USENET" articles, but instead, prunes some out and adds messages from the moderator summarizing things and such, and did not restrict the raw original USENET stuff. Would this satisfy you? I don't really know what form IN MODERATION's service is actually going to take, so I don't know if what I just said above has any reflection in reality, but I'm just wondering. -- - john romkey USENET/UUCP: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us Internet: romkey@ftp.com "We had some good machines/But they don't work no more" - Shriekback