Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP map for u.fra.0 (from comp.mail.maps)
Message-ID: <3875@phri.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 01:17:04 GMT
References: <7106@ki4pv.uucp> <1989Jul17.085440.9421@coms.axis.fr> <254@ecicrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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[This has been quoted some many times, I'm not sure who originally said this:]
> It has been pointed out via e-mail tha[t] EUUG actively sues people who
> turn the map entries into mailing lists, and that the copyright supports
> this activity.

	First off, I'm not sure how to parse that.  What activity does the
copyright support?  The turning of the map entries into mailing lists or the
bringing of lawsuits?

	I'm certainly not expert on the legalities of copyright, but it seems
to me that putting a copyright notice in a map entry is a dubious thing.  Map
entries are intended to be machine parsed.  Presumably that means the
copyright notices are put in as comments, which the various map parsing
software will simply ignore.  Somebody could write a script to turn the map
entries into mailing lists and never even know that there *was* a copyright
notice.  This hardly seems useful, nor fair.
-- 
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