Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation - Good or Bad? Message-ID: <1989Jun14.173722.23402@ateng.com> Date: 14 Jun 89 17:37:22 GMT References: <1989Jun12.100943.24233@ateng.ateng.com> <2482@asylum.SF.CA.US> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 24 According to romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey): >According to chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg): >>Of course, all this may turn out to me moot. The In Moderation people >>still have to deal with the issue of article copyright. > >Um, I don't see any copyright here. An explicit copyright notice is not required. For some months now, all works in the U.S.A are born copyrighted. Something called the Berne Convention, an international agreement about copyrights, has finally been signed by the U.S.A. >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? Yes, of course. Free distribution of partial feeds is a Usenet tradition. Unfortunately, IMN will probably not adopt this policy -- it would render them unable to prevent entire regions from "freeloading" off a single feed. -- 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!