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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: IN MODERATION NETWORK
Message-ID: <1989Jun17.011948.4245@twwells.com>
Date: 17 Jun 89 01:19:48 GMT
References: <1097@fernwood.MPK.CA.US> <1989Jun6.111130.20332@ateng.ateng.com> <1989Jun14.172942.23300@ateng.com> <4576@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <4576@ficc.uu.net> cliff@ficc.uu.net (cliff click) writes:
: In other words, I can pay IMN for a better feed, but IMN can't stop me
: from sending this feed out to my friends - because IMN can't copyright
: this feed.

That is incorrect. They may claim a compilation copyright. That does
not prohibit anyone from distributing the individual articles (e.g.
Usenet); it most certainly would prohibit someone from simply
redistributing the feed.

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